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| 1 | .\" $OpenBSD: ssh-agent.1,v 1.13 2000/07/06 04:06:56 aaron Exp $ | ||
| 2 | .\" | ||
| 3 | .\" -*- nroff -*- | ||
| 4 | .\" | ||
| 5 | .\" ssh-agent.1 | ||
| 6 | .\" | ||
| 7 | .\" Author: Tatu Ylonen <ylo@cs.hut.fi> | ||
| 8 | .\" | ||
| 9 | .\" Copyright (c) 1995 Tatu Ylonen <ylo@cs.hut.fi>, Espoo, Finland | ||
| 10 | .\" All rights reserved | ||
| 11 | .\" | ||
| 12 | .\" Created: Sat Apr 23 20:10:43 1995 ylo | ||
| 13 | .\" | ||
| 14 | .Dd September 25, 1999 | ||
| 15 | .Dt SSH-AGENT 1 | ||
| 16 | .Os | ||
| 17 | .Sh NAME | ||
| 18 | .Nm ssh-agent | ||
| 19 | .Nd authentication agent | ||
| 20 | .Sh SYNOPSIS | ||
| 21 | .Nm ssh-agent | ||
| 22 | .Op Fl c Li | Fl s | ||
| 23 | .Op Fl k | ||
| 24 | .Oo | ||
| 25 | .Ar command | ||
| 26 | .Op Ar args ... | ||
| 27 | .Oc | ||
| 28 | .Sh DESCRIPTION | ||
| 29 | .Nm | ||
| 30 | is a program to hold private keys used for RSA authentication. | ||
| 31 | The idea is that | ||
| 32 | .Nm | ||
| 33 | is started in the beginning of an X-session or a login session, and | ||
| 34 | all other windows or programs are started as clients to the ssh-agent | ||
| 35 | program. | ||
| 36 | Through use of environment variables the agent can be located | ||
| 37 | and automatically used for RSA authentication when logging in to other | ||
| 38 | machines using | ||
| 39 | .Xr ssh 1 . | ||
| 40 | .Pp | ||
| 41 | The options are as follows: | ||
| 42 | .Bl -tag -width Ds | ||
| 43 | .It Fl c | ||
| 44 | Generate C-shell commands on | ||
| 45 | .Dv stdout . | ||
| 46 | This is the default if | ||
| 47 | .Ev SHELL | ||
| 48 | looks like it's a csh style of shell. | ||
| 49 | .It Fl s | ||
| 50 | Generate Bourne shell commands on | ||
| 51 | .Dv stdout . | ||
| 52 | This is the default if | ||
| 53 | .Ev SHELL | ||
| 54 | does not look like it's a csh style of shell. | ||
| 55 | .It Fl k | ||
| 56 | Kill the current agent (given by the | ||
| 57 | .Ev SSH_AGENT_PID | ||
| 58 | environment variable). | ||
| 59 | .El | ||
| 60 | .Pp | ||
| 61 | If a commandline is given, this is executed as a subprocess of the agent. | ||
| 62 | When the command dies, so does the agent. | ||
| 63 | .Pp | ||
| 64 | The agent initially does not have any private keys. | ||
| 65 | Keys are added using | ||
| 66 | .Xr ssh-add 1 . | ||
| 67 | When executed without arguments, | ||
| 68 | .Xr ssh-add 1 | ||
| 69 | adds the | ||
| 70 | .Pa $HOME/.ssh/identity | ||
| 71 | file. | ||
| 72 | If the identity has a passphrase, | ||
| 73 | .Xr ssh-add 1 | ||
| 74 | asks for the passphrase (using a small X11 application if running | ||
| 75 | under X11, or from the terminal if running without X). | ||
| 76 | It then sends the identity to the agent. | ||
| 77 | Several identities can be stored in the | ||
| 78 | agent; the agent can automatically use any of these identities. | ||
| 79 | .Ic ssh-add -l | ||
| 80 | displays the identities currently held by the agent. | ||
| 81 | .Pp | ||
| 82 | The idea is that the agent is run in the user's local PC, laptop, or | ||
| 83 | terminal. | ||
| 84 | Authentication data need not be stored on any other | ||
| 85 | machine, and authentication passphrases never go over the network. | ||
| 86 | However, the connection to the agent is forwarded over SSH | ||
| 87 | remote logins, and the user can thus use the privileges given by the | ||
| 88 | identities anywhere in the network in a secure way. | ||
| 89 | .Pp | ||
| 90 | There are two main ways to get an agent setup: | ||
| 91 | Either you let the agent | ||
| 92 | start a new subcommand into which some environment variables are exported, or | ||
| 93 | you let the agent print the needed shell commands (either | ||
| 94 | .Xr sh 1 | ||
| 95 | or | ||
| 96 | .Xr csh 1 | ||
| 97 | syntax can be generated) which can be evalled in the calling shell. | ||
| 98 | Later | ||
| 99 | .Xr ssh 1 | ||
| 100 | look at these variables and use them to establish a connection to the agent. | ||
| 101 | .Pp | ||
| 102 | A unix-domain socket is created | ||
| 103 | .Pq Pa /tmp/ssh-XXXXXXXX/agent.<pid> , | ||
| 104 | and the name of this socket is stored in the | ||
| 105 | .Ev SSH_AUTH_SOCK | ||
| 106 | environment | ||
| 107 | variable. | ||
| 108 | The socket is made accessible only to the current user. | ||
| 109 | This method is easily abused by root or another instance of the same | ||
| 110 | user. | ||
| 111 | .Pp | ||
| 112 | The | ||
| 113 | .Ev SSH_AGENT_PID | ||
| 114 | environment variable holds the agent's PID. | ||
| 115 | .Pp | ||
| 116 | The agent exits automatically when the command given on the command | ||
| 117 | line terminates. | ||
| 118 | .Sh FILES | ||
| 119 | .Bl -tag -width Ds | ||
| 120 | .It Pa $HOME/.ssh/identity | ||
| 121 | Contains the RSA authentication identity of the user. | ||
| 122 | This file should not be readable by anyone but the user. | ||
| 123 | It is possible to | ||
| 124 | specify a passphrase when generating the key; that passphrase will be | ||
| 125 | used to encrypt the private part of this file. | ||
| 126 | This file is not used by | ||
| 127 | .Nm | ||
| 128 | but is normally added to the agent using | ||
| 129 | .Xr ssh-add 1 | ||
| 130 | at login time. | ||
| 131 | .It Pa /tmp/ssh-XXXX/agent.<pid> , | ||
| 132 | Unix-domain sockets used to contain the connection to the | ||
| 133 | authentication agent. | ||
| 134 | These sockets should only be readable by the owner. | ||
| 135 | The sockets should get automatically removed when the agent exits. | ||
| 136 | .El | ||
| 137 | .Sh AUTHOR | ||
| 138 | Tatu Ylonen <ylo@cs.hut.fi> | ||
| 139 | .Pp | ||
| 140 | OpenSSH | ||
| 141 | is a derivative of the original (free) ssh 1.2.12 release, but with bugs | ||
| 142 | removed and newer features re-added. | ||
| 143 | Rapidly after the 1.2.12 release, | ||
| 144 | newer versions bore successively more restrictive licenses. | ||
| 145 | This version of OpenSSH | ||
| 146 | .Bl -bullet | ||
| 147 | .It | ||
| 148 | has all components of a restrictive nature (i.e., patents) | ||
| 149 | directly removed from the source code; any licensed or patented components | ||
| 150 | are chosen from | ||
| 151 | external libraries. | ||
| 152 | .It | ||
| 153 | has been updated to support ssh protocol 1.5. | ||
| 154 | .It | ||
| 155 | contains added support for | ||
| 156 | .Xr kerberos 8 | ||
| 157 | authentication and ticket passing. | ||
| 158 | .It | ||
| 159 | supports one-time password authentication with | ||
| 160 | .Xr skey 1 . | ||
| 161 | .El | ||
| 162 | .Pp | ||
| 163 | .Sh SEE ALSO | ||
| 164 | .Xr ssh 1 , | ||
| 165 | .Xr ssh-add 1 , | ||
| 166 | .Xr ssh-keygen 1 , | ||
| 167 | .Xr sshd 8 , | ||
