ssh-agent w/timeout: does ssh-add reset that timeout?

Kevin Layer layer at franz.com
Fri Sep 27 08:50:30 EST 2013


Damien Miller wrote:

>> On Thu, 26 Sep 2013, Kevin Layer wrote:
>> 
>> > I run ssh-agent like this:
>> > 
>> >   /usr/bin/ssh-agent -t 12h -s
>> > 
>> > If I run ssh-add will it reset the timeout period back to 12h for that
>> > key, if it was already known to ssh-agent?
>> 
>> Yes

It would be nice to update the documentation for ssh-add to say this,
as well as a mention for the -t argument for ssh-agent.

Thanks.


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