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diff --git a/misc/keychain/README b/misc/keychain/README new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..7e4977d8e547 --- /dev/null +++ b/misc/keychain/README @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +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 dramatically 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. + +This allows 'cron' jobs to use 'ssh' scripts in a friendly +(yet secure) manner. |