SSH-AGENT(1) BSD General Commands Manual SSH-AGENT(1)
NAME
ssh-agent -- authentication agent
SYNOPSIS
ssh-agent [-c | -s] [-d] [-a bind_address] [-t life] [command [arg ...]]
ssh-agent [-c | -s] -k
DESCRIPTION
ssh-agent is a program to hold private keys used for public key authenti-
cation (RSA, DSA, ECDSA). The idea is that ssh-agent is started in the
beginning of an X-session or a login session, and all other windows or
programs are started as clients to the ssh-agent program. Through use of
environment variables the agent can be located and automatically used for
authentication when logging in to other machines using ssh(1).
The options are as follows:
-a bind_address
Bind the agent to the UNIX-domain socket bind_address. The
default is $TMPDIR/ssh-XXXXXXXXXX/agent.<ppid>.
-c Generate C-shell commands on stdout. This is the default if
SHELL looks like it's a csh style of shell.
-d Debug mode. When this option is specified ssh-agent will not
fork.
-k Kill the current agent (given by the SSH_AGENT_PID environment
variable).
-s Generate Bourne shell commands on stdout. This is the default if
SHELL does not look like it's a csh style of shell.
I'm not seeing anything there that will stop it saving passwords?
