- Added keychain man page
- Fixed bugs with displaying colors for keychain --help
- Added a $grepopts to fix the grepping for a pid on cygwin
- Added a TODO document color fix based on submission by Luke Holden
NOTE: The .ssh-agent-* files are now in the ~/.keychain/ directory. Use
something like this in your dot files:
[ -r ${HOME}/.ssh-agent-`hostname` ] && . ${HOME}/.ssh-agent-`hostname`
[ -r ${HOME}/.keychain/`hostname`-sh ] && . ${HOME}/.keychain/`hostname`-sh
OK'd by martti and garbled.
Changelog:
04 Mar 2002; changed license from "GPL, v2 or later" to "GPL v2".
04 Mar 2002; added "keychain.cygwin" for Cygwin systems. It may be time to
follow this pattern and start building separate, optimized scripts for each
platform so they don't get too sluggish. Maybe I could use a C preprocessor
for this.
06 Dec 2001; several people: Solaris doesn't like '-e' comparisons; switched
to '-f'
* Added a "--local" option for removing the ${HOSTNAME} from the various
files that keychain creates. Handy for non-NFS users.
* Using the Bourne shell "type" builtin rather than using the external
"which" command. Should make things a lot more robust and slightly
faster.
* Solaris' "which" command outputs "no lockfile in..." to stdout rather
than stderr. A one-line fix (test the error condition) has been
applied.
* lockfile settings tweak
* If you stop making progress providing valid passphrases, it's three
strikes and you're out.
* Some private keys can't be "ssh-keygen -l -f"'d; this patch causes
keychain to look for the corresponding public key if the private
key doesn't work. Thanks Constantine!
* CYAN color misdefined; fixed.
* A "quiet mode" (--quiet) fix; I missed an "echo".
* Missed another "kill -9"; it's now gone.
* Use procmail's lockfile to serialize the execution of critical parts of
keychain, thus avoiding multiple ssh-agent processes being started if
you happen to have multiple xterms open automatically when you log in.
Keychain will now auto-detect whether lockfile is installed; if it is,
keychain will automatically use it
* No longer "kill -9" our ssh-agent processes
* Added argument "--quiet | -q"
* Added "-h" as alias for "--help", added "-k" as alias for "--stop"
* Add /usr/ucb to path for Solaris systems
* Try to add multiple keys using ssh-add; avoid typing in identical
passphrases more than once.
* Misc. compatibility, signal handling, cleanup fixes
* We now use .ssh-agent-[hostname] instead of .ssh-agent
* "source" to "." shell-compatibility fixes.
* "rm -f $pidf" after stopping ssh-agent fix
DESCR:
Keychain is a shell script which acts as user-friendly front-end to
ssh-agent(1), allowing you to have one long-running ssh-agent process per
system rather than per login session.
Please study the documentation on the keychain website carefully since
incorrect usage of this script may have certain security implementations.
