N1 Service Provisioning System 4.1 Installation Guide

OpenSSH 2.0 Command Reference

This section describes the OpenSSH 2.0 commands and options that are used in the instructions in this chapter. If you are using a different version of SSH, determine the commands and options available in that version of SSH that are equivalent to the following commands.

Table 6–2 OpenSSH 2.0 Commands


Tool	Description
`ssh`	Enables the calling application to invoke another application remotely. When configured to use SSH for communications, the software uses the `ssh` command to invoke the remote application, either a Remote Agent or a Local Distributor, and uses the standard input and output streams of SSH to communicate with it.
`ssh-agent`	Used when you want to use private keys with passwords. Upload your keys with the `ssh-agent` so that SSH invocations of the applications communicate with the `ssh-agent` for authentication.
`ssh-add`	Uploads private keys into `ssh-agent`.
`ssh-keygen`	Generates the public-private key pair to secure an SSH connection.

The following options can be used with the ssh command.

-A: Enables authentication agent forwarding
-o `BatchMode yes': Disables passphrase querying
-t: Allocates a tty even if a command is given

The following option can be used with the ssh-keygen command.

-t rsa: Specifies RSA as the type of key to generate.

The following option can be used with the ssh-agent command.

-k: Kills the agent using the pid set in the environment variable SSH_AGENT_PID. Other implementations might use a different environment variable.