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Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin/ssh/ssh-agent.1')
| -rw-r--r-- | usr.bin/ssh/ssh-agent.1 | 22 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/ssh/ssh-agent.1 b/usr.bin/ssh/ssh-agent.1 index aab15cc7fb8..cfefd34e910 100644 --- a/usr.bin/ssh/ssh-agent.1 +++ b/usr.bin/ssh/ssh-agent.1 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: ssh-agent.1,v 1.39 2003/06/10 09:12:11 jmc Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: ssh-agent.1,v 1.40 2004/05/13 02:47:50 dtucker Exp $ .\" .\" Author: Tatu Ylonen <ylo@cs.hut.fi> .\" Copyright (c) 1995 Tatu Ylonen <ylo@cs.hut.fi>, Espoo, Finland @@ -134,13 +134,25 @@ remote logins, and the user can thus use the privileges given by the identities anywhere in the network in a secure way. .Pp There are two main ways to get an agent set up: -Either the agent starts a new subcommand into which some environment -variables are exported, or the agent prints the needed shell commands -(either +The first is that the agent starts a new subcommand into which some environment +variables are exported, eg +.Cm ssh-agent xterm & . +The second is that the agent prints the needed shell commands (either .Xr sh 1 or .Xr csh 1 -syntax can be generated) which can be evalled in the calling shell. +syntax can be generated) which can be evalled in the calling shell, eg +.Cm eval `ssh-agent -s` +for Bourne-type shells such as +.Xr sh 1 +or +.Xr ksh 1 +and +.Cm eval `ssh-agent -c` +for +.Xr csh 1 +and derivatives. +.Pp Later .Xr ssh 1 looks at these variables and uses them to establish a connection to the agent. |