keychain 1.7 by Daniel Robbins (http://freshmeat.net/users/gentoo/) Monday, October 22nd 2001 13:35 Categories: Security, Utilities About: keychain helps you to manage RSA and DSA keys in a convenient and secure manner. It acts as a frontend to SSH-agent, but allows you to easily have one long running SSH-agent process per system, rather than the norm of one SSH-agent per login session. This dramatically reduces the number of times you need to enter your passphrase - with keychain, 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, allowing your scripts to take advantage of RSA and DSA keys. Changes: Automatically taking advantage of procmail's lockfile command (if present) to serialize the startup of multiple keychain processes (preventing the "too many ssh-agents" bug; this fix is very handy if you've configured your system to open multiple login xterms when you start your X session), a ssh-agent kill fix, a Solaris output fix, Darwin/MacOS X path fix, FreeBSD output fix, new short-style options (-k/-h for --stop and --help respectively), and a new -q/--quiet option for less-verbose output. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/keychain/ -- Elias Levy SecurityFocus http://www.securityfocus.com/ Si vis pacem, para bellum
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