ssh-add - adds private key identities to the OpenSSH authentication agent

To create the public key and the private key $ ssh-keygen -t rsa

To keep the identity of the agents for 600 seconds. $ ssh-agent -t 600 To make ssh-agent command for non-interactive authentication $ eval $(ssh-agent)

To add the private key passphrase to ssh-agent $ ssh-add

To list my private keys cached by ssh-agent $ ssh-add -l

To list all public key parameters of all identities $ ssh-add -L

To remove all cached ssh-agent private keys $ ssh-add -D

To lock the SSH Agent $ ssh-add -x To unlock SSH Agent $ ssh-add -X

regards, T.Dhanasekar