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Diffstat (limited to 'ssh-agent.1')
| -rw-r--r-- | ssh-agent.1 | 11 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/ssh-agent.1 b/ssh-agent.1 index 47b1e5cc..0aa1ecf4 100644 --- a/ssh-agent.1 +++ b/ssh-agent.1 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: ssh-agent.1,v 1.13 2000/07/06 04:06:56 aaron Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: ssh-agent.1,v 1.14 2000/08/19 21:34:43 markus Exp $ .\" .\" -*- nroff -*- .\" @@ -27,14 +27,15 @@ .Oc .Sh DESCRIPTION .Nm -is a program to hold private keys used for RSA authentication. +is a program to hold private keys used for public key authentication +(RSA, DSA). The idea is that .Nm is started in the beginning of an X-session or a login session, and all other windows or programs are started as clients to the ssh-agent program. Through use of environment variables the agent can be located -and automatically used for RSA authentication when logging in to other +and automatically used for authentication when logging in to other machines using .Xr ssh 1 . .Pp @@ -128,7 +129,9 @@ This file is not used by but is normally added to the agent using .Xr ssh-add 1 at login time. -.It Pa /tmp/ssh-XXXX/agent.<pid> , +.It Pa $HOME/.ssh/id_dsa +Contains the DSA authentication identity of the user. +.Pq Pa /tmp/ssh-XXXXXXXX/agent.<pid> , Unix-domain sockets used to contain the connection to the authentication agent. These sockets should only be readable by the owner. |