q-agent(1)

NAME

q-agent - store secrets in a safer way

SYNOPSIS

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

DESCRIPTION

Start an agent to hold secrets. Settings necessary to com

municate 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 condi

tions. There is no warranty; not even for merchantability or

fitness for a particular purpose.

Quintuple Agent 10 March 2003

Q-AGENT(1)