man q-agent (Commandes) - store secrets in a safer way

NAME

q-agent - store secrets in a safer way

SYNOPSIS

eval `q-agent [ OPTION ... ] &`

DESCRIPTION

Start an agent to hold secrets. Settings necessary to communicate with the daemon are printed to standard output. These should be captured, and evaluated in your shell, like shown in the synopsis.

Once q-agent is started, the programs listed under "See Also" can be used to store and retrieve secrets.

-c, --csh
output commands compatible with csh-like shells - the default is to print bourne-shell compatible commands
-d, --debug
turn on debugging output, can be used up to two times to generate even more information - level two will output secrets, too, so beware!
-q, --query-options OPTIONS
if a secret is queried on demand, the OPTIONS are passed to the program used to query it. The only viable option right now is --no-global-grab (or -g in short), which prevents grabbing of the keyboard until the query window is focused. (See secret-query(1) for details.)
--fork
fork into the background - this will instruct the agent to act just like a daemon, i.e. it keeps on running, even after you log out.
--help
print a usage synopsis, then exit
--version
print version information, then exit

ENVIRONMENT

AGENT_SOCKET
Other programs will use this variable to find the socket for communicating with the agent. q-agent outputs code to set it to the right value.

SEE ALSO

q-client(1)

agpg(1)

apgp(1)

AUTHOR

Robert Bihlmeyer <robbe@orcus.priv.at>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2000 Robert Bihlmeyer

This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is no warranty; not even for merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.