bionic (1) agent-transfer.1.gz

NAME

       agent-transfer - copy a secret key from gpg-agent to ssh-agent

SYNOPSIS

       agent-transfer [options] KEYGRIP [COMMENT]

DESCRIPTION

       agent-transfer extracts a secret key from a modern version of GnuPG agent and sends it to the running SSH
       agent.  This is useful for people whose keys are managed in the long-term by GnuPG's gpg-agent,  but  who
       prefer the semantics of OpenSSH's ssh-agent for regular use.

       agent-transfer was written as part of the monkeysphere project.

       The  KEYGRIP  should  be specified as a sequence of 20 hexadecimal characters.  If you aren't sure of the
       keygrip, you can inspect the output of:

               gpg --with-keygrip --list-secret-keys

       The COMMENT is optional, and will be stored alongside the key in ssh-agent.  It must not start with a  -,
       to avoid being mistaken for an option.

OPTIONS

       agent-transfer  also  accepts options that would normally be passed to ssh-add(1) to constrain the use of
       the transferred key:

       -c     Indicates that  added  identities  should  be  subject  to  confirmation  before  being  used  for
              authentication.

       -t SECONDS
              Indicates that the key should have a lifetime of SECONDS in the running ssh-agent.

FILES

       ~/.gnupg/S.gpg-agent
              The socket where gpg-agent is listening.  This is the "standard socket" for modern GnuPG.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

       GNUPGHOME
              The  GnuPG  home directory, where the standard socket for gpg-agent lives.  If this is not set, it
              is assumed to be ~/.gnupg.

       SSH_AUTH_SOCK
              Specifies the location where the running ssh-agent is present.

       Several other environment variables are also passed in some form to the gpg-agent to help it  figure  out
       how   to   run  a  sensible  pinentry,  including  GPG_TTY,  TERM,  DISPLAY,  XAUTHORITY,  GTK_IM_MODULE,
       DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS, and LANG.

AUTHOR

       Written by: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>

SEE ALSO

       monkeysphere(7), ssh(1), ssh-add(1), ssh-agent(1), gpg(1) gpg-agent(1),