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Keychain - Key management front-end for OpenSSH's ssh-agent

'Keychain' helps you to manage RSA and DSA keys conveniently and securely. It acts as a frontend to SSH-agent, but lets you have one long running SSH-agent process per system (rather than the norm of one SSH-agent per login session), so you only need to enter a passphrase once every time your local machine is rebooted. 'Keychain' also makes it easy for remote cron jobs to securely "hook in" to a long running SSH-agent process, so your scripts can take advantage of RSA and DSA keys.

Obtaining

Web pagehttp://www.gentoo.org/projects/keychain/
Source tarballhttp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/distfiles/keychain-2.3.4.tar.bz2.
Version 2.3.4 (stable) released on 2004-07-25
Licensed under The GNU General Public License, Version 2.
This is not a GNU package.

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Interfacescommand line
Source languagesShell script
Use requirementsOpenSSH
Weak prerequisitesprocmail

Entry information

License verified byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2001-09-21
Entry compiled byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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