Bug#531069: marked as done (document ssh-add unexplained behaviors)
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has caused the Debian Bug report #531069,
regarding document ssh-add unexplained behaviors
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Package: openssh-client
Version: 1:5.1p1-5+b1
Severity: wishlist
File: /usr/share/man/man1/ssh-add.1.gz
The man page says
DESCRIPTION
ssh-add adds RSA or DSA identities to the authentication agent, ssh-agent(1). When run without arguments, it adds
the files ~/.ssh/id_rsa, ~/.ssh/id_dsa and ~/.ssh/identity. Alternative file names can be given on the command
line. If any file requires a passphrase, ssh-add asks for the passphrase from the user. The passphrase is read
from the user's tty. ssh-add retries the last passphrase if multiple identity files are given.
The authentication agent must be running and the SSH_AUTH_SOCK environment variable must contain the name of its
socket for ssh-add to work.
All I know is
$ cp -a .ssh /tmp
$ ssh-add
Identity added: /home/jidanni/.ssh/id_rsa (/home/jidanni/.ssh/id_rsa)
$ diff -r .ssh /tmp/.ssh/ #So we see that it did not add anything after all!
$ mv .ssh .sshN
$ ssh-add #exits 1, with no error message
$ diff -r .ssh /tmp/.ssh/
diff: .ssh: No such file or directory #so we see that it does nothing.
The above three #commented behaviors need to be mentioned on the man
page. Nowhere did it exit 2, even though I never did /etc/init.d/ssh
start, if that is the agent it is talking about.
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On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 01:15:00AM +0800, jidanni@jidanni.org wrote:
> The man page says
> DESCRIPTION
> ssh-add adds RSA or DSA identities to the authentication agent, ssh-agent(1). When run without arguments, it adds
> the files ~/.ssh/id_rsa, ~/.ssh/id_dsa and ~/.ssh/identity. Alternative file names can be given on the command
> line. If any file requires a passphrase, ssh-add asks for the passphrase from the user. The passphrase is read
> from the user's tty. ssh-add retries the last passphrase if multiple identity files are given.
>
> The authentication agent must be running and the SSH_AUTH_SOCK environment variable must contain the name of its
> socket for ssh-add to work.
> All I know is
> $ cp -a .ssh /tmp
> $ ssh-add
> Identity added: /home/jidanni/.ssh/id_rsa (/home/jidanni/.ssh/id_rsa)
> $ diff -r .ssh /tmp/.ssh/ #So we see that it did not add anything after all!
ssh-agent stores keys in memory; it does not edit any files in ~/.ssh.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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