Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-security (606 mails)

[Johannes Geiger <geiger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 08:55:01PM -0400, Phillip D. Beal wrote:
> I found this out a while ago and come up with a small fix.  If you run
> the following:
(...)

Do not guess, read the documentation. It is right there at the beginning
of the man-page:

SSH-AGENT(1)                   SSH                   SSH-AGENT(1)


NAME
       ssh-agent - authentication agent


SYNOPSIS
       ssh-agent command

       eval `ssh-agent [-k] [-s] [-c]`


DESCRIPTION
       Ssh-agent  is  a  program  to  hold authentication private
       keys.  The idea is that ssh-agent is started in the begin­
       ning  of  an  X-session  or a login session, and all other
       windows or programs are started as children  of  the  ssh-
       agent  program  (the  command  normally starts X or is the
       user shell).  Programs started under the agent  inherit  a
(...)

HTH

Johannes