secsh-add, ssh-add -- adds RSA or DSA identities to the authentication agent

SYNOPSIS

secsh-add [-lLdD] file...

secsh-add -s reader

secsh-add -e reader

ssh-add [-lLdD] file...

ssh-add -s reader

ssh-add -e reader

secsh-add adds RSA or DSA identities to the authentication agent, secsh-agent. When run without arguments, it adds the file $USERPROFILE/.ssh/identity. Alternative file names can be given on the command line. If any file requires a passphrase, secsh-add asks for the passphrase from the user. The passphrase is read from the user's tty. secsh-add retries the last passphrase if multiple identity files are given.

The authentication agent must be running and must be an ancestor of the current process for secsh-add to work.

You can also call secsh-add as ssh-add.

Options

-l: Lists fingerprints of all identities currently represented by the agent.
-L: Lists public key parameters of all identities currently represented by the agent.
-d: Instead of adding the identity, removes the identity from the agent.
-D: Deletes all identities from the agent.
-s reader: Adds key in smartcard reader.
-e reader: Removes key in smartcard reader.

FILES

$USERPROFILE/.ssh/identity: Contains the protocol version 1 RSA authentication identity of the user. This file should not be readable by anyone but the user. Note that secsh-add ignores this file if it is accessible by others. It is possible to specify a passphrase when generating the key; that passphrase will be used to encrypt the private part of this file. This is the default file added by secsh-add when no other files have been specified.
$USERPROFILE/.ssh/id_dsa: Contains the protocol version 2 DSA authentication identity of the user.
$USERPROFILE/.ssh/id_rsa: Contains the protocol version 2 RSA authentication identity of the user.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

DISPLAY
SSH_ASKPASS: If secsh-add needs a passphrase, it will read the passphrase from the current terminal if it was run from a terminal. If secsh-add does not have a terminal associated with it but DISPLAY and SSH_ASKPASS are set, it will execute the program specified by SSH_ASKPASS and open an X11 window to read the passphrase. This is particularly useful when calling secsh-add from a .Xsession or related script. (Note that on some machines it may be necessary to redirect the input from /dev/null to make this work.)

AUTHORS

OpenSSH is a derivative of the original and free ssh 1.2.12 release by Tatu Ylonen. Aaron Campbell, Bob Beck, Markus Friedl, Niels Provos, Theo de Raadt and Dug Song removed many bugs, re-added newer features and created OpenSSH. Markus Friedl contributed the support for SSH protocol versions 1.5 and 2.0.

PORTABILITY

All UNIX systems. Windows 2000. Windows XP. Windows Server 2003. Windows Vista.

NOTES

The secsh-add utility, by default, loads keys from the $USERPROFILE directory on Windows NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista platforms instead of ~/. This was done because the ~/ directory might not be available for the case of a domain machine that cannot contact a domain controller. Note that the secure shell service continues to use the ~/.ssh directory to store configuration files.

AVAILABILITY

MKS Toolkit for System Administrators
MKS Toolkit for Developers
MKS Toolkit for Interoperability
MKS Toolkit for Professional Developers
MKS Toolkit for Enterprise Developers
MKS Toolkit for Enterprise Developers 64-Bit Edition

secsh-add, ssh-add
adds RSA or DSA identities to the authentication agent

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