1SSH-ADD(1) OpenBSD Reference Manual SSH-ADD(1) 2 3NAME 4 ssh-add - adds private key identities to the authentication agent 5 6SYNOPSIS 7 ssh-add [-cDdkLlXx] [-t life] [file ...] 8 ssh-add -s pkcs11 9 ssh-add -e pkcs11 10 11DESCRIPTION 12 ssh-add adds private key identities to the authentication agent, 13 ssh-agent(1). When run without arguments, it adds the files 14 ~/.ssh/id_rsa, ~/.ssh/id_dsa, ~/.ssh/id_ecdsa and ~/.ssh/identity. After 15 loading a private key, ssh-add will try to load corresponding certificate 16 information from the filename obtained by appending -cert.pub to the name 17 of the private key file. Alternative file names can be given on the 18 command line. 19 20 If any file requires a passphrase, ssh-add asks for the passphrase from 21 the user. The passphrase is read from the user's tty. ssh-add retries 22 the last passphrase if multiple identity files are given. 23 24 The authentication agent must be running and the SSH_AUTH_SOCK 25 environment variable must contain the name of its socket for ssh-add to 26 work. 27 28 The options are as follows: 29 30 -c Indicates that added identities should be subject to confirmation 31 before being used for authentication. Confirmation is performed 32 by the SSH_ASKPASS program mentioned below. Successful 33 confirmation is signaled by a zero exit status from the 34 SSH_ASKPASS program, rather than text entered into the requester. 35 36 -D Deletes all identities from the agent. 37 38 -d Instead of adding identities, removes identities from the agent. 39 If ssh-add has been run without arguments, the keys for the 40 default identities and their corresponding certificates will be 41 removed. Otherwise, the argument list will be interpreted as a 42 list of paths to public key files to specify keys and 43 certificates to be removed from the agent. If no public key is 44 found at a given path, ssh-add will append .pub and retry. 45 46 -e pkcs11 47 Remove keys provided by the PKCS#11 shared library pkcs11. 48 49 -k When loading keys into or deleting keys from the agent, process 50 plain private keys only and skip certificates. 51 52 -L Lists public key parameters of all identities currently 53 represented by the agent. 54 55 -l Lists fingerprints of all identities currently represented by the 56 agent. 57 58 -s pkcs11 59 Add keys provided by the PKCS#11 shared library pkcs11. 60 61 -t life 62 Set a maximum lifetime when adding identities to an agent. The 63 lifetime may be specified in seconds or in a time format 64 specified in sshd_config(5). 65 66 -X Unlock the agent. 67 68 -x Lock the agent with a password. 69 70 -K When adding identities, each passphrase will also be stored in 71 your keychain. When removing identities with -d, each passphrase 72 will be removed from your keychain. 73 74 -k Add identities to the agent using any passphrases stored in your 75 keychain. 76 77ENVIRONMENT 78 DISPLAY and SSH_ASKPASS 79 If ssh-add needs a passphrase, it will read the passphrase from 80 the current terminal if it was run from a terminal. If ssh-add 81 does not have a terminal associated with it but DISPLAY and 82 SSH_ASKPASS are set, it will execute the program specified by 83 SSH_ASKPASS and open an X11 window to read the passphrase. This 84 is particularly useful when calling ssh-add from a .xsession or 85 related script. (Note that on some machines it may be necessary 86 to redirect the input from /dev/null to make this work.) 87 88 SSH_AUTH_SOCK 89 Identifies the path of a UNIX-domain socket used to communicate 90 with the agent. 91 92FILES 93 ~/.ssh/identity 94 Contains the protocol version 1 RSA authentication identity of 95 the user. 96 97 ~/.ssh/id_dsa 98 Contains the protocol version 2 DSA authentication identity of 99 the user. 100 101 ~/.ssh/id_ecdsa 102 Contains the protocol version 2 ECDSA authentication identity of 103 the user. 104 105 ~/.ssh/id_rsa 106 Contains the protocol version 2 RSA authentication identity of 107 the user. 108 109 Identity files should not be readable by anyone but the user. Note that 110 ssh-add ignores identity files if they are accessible by others. 111 112EXIT STATUS 113 Exit status is 0 on success, 1 if the specified command fails, and 2 if 114 ssh-add is unable to contact the authentication agent. 115 116SEE ALSO 117 ssh(1), ssh-agent(1), ssh-keygen(1), sshd(8) 118 119AUTHORS 120 OpenSSH is a derivative of the original and free ssh 1.2.12 release by 121 Tatu Ylonen. Aaron Campbell, Bob Beck, Markus Friedl, Niels Provos, Theo 122 de Raadt and Dug Song removed many bugs, re-added newer features and 123 created OpenSSH. Markus Friedl contributed the support for SSH protocol 124 versions 1.5 and 2.0. 125 126OpenBSD 5.3 December 3, 2012 OpenBSD 5.3 127