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diff --git a/misc/keychain/README b/misc/keychain/README index 2deea65914..8227d425fd 100644 --- a/misc/keychain/README +++ b/misc/keychain/README @@ -1,9 +1,18 @@ -Keychain is a manager for OpenSSH, ssh.com, Sun SSH and GnuPG agents. -It acts as a front-end to the agents, allowing you to easily have one -long running agent process per system, rather than per login session. -This reduces the number of times you need to enter your passphrase -from once per new login session to once every time your local machine -is rebooted. +Keychain helps you to manage SSH and GPG keys in a convenient and +secure manner. It acts as a frontend to ssh-agent and ssh-add, but +allows you to easily have one long running ssh-agent process per +running ssh-agent process per system, rather than the norm of one +ssh-agent per login session. -This allows 'cron' jobs to use 'ssh' scripts in a friendly yet secure -manner. +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 +key-based logins. + +Keychain also integrates with gpg-agent, so that GPG keys can be +cached at the same time as SSH keys. + +Additional documentation for Keychain can be found on the Keychain wiki +page. |