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Sortix volatile manual

This manual documents Sortix volatile, a development build that has not been officially released. You can instead view this document in the latest official manual.

NAME

ssh-sk-helper — OpenSSH helper for FIDO authenticator support

SYNOPSIS

ssh-sk-helper [-v]

DESCRIPTION

ssh-sk-helper is used by ssh(1), ssh-agent(1), and ssh-keygen(1) to access keys provided by a FIDO authenticator.
ssh-sk-helper is not intended to be invoked directly by the user.
A single option is supported:
-v
Verbose mode. Causes ssh-sk-helper to print debugging messages about its progress. This is helpful in debugging problems. Multiple -v options increase the verbosity. The maximum is 3.
Note that ssh(1), ssh-agent(1), and ssh-keygen(1) will automatically pass the -v flag to ssh-sk-helper when they have themselves been placed in debug mode.

SEE ALSO

ssh(1), ssh-agent(1), ssh-keygen(1)

HISTORY

ssh-sk-helper first appeared in OpenBSD 6.7.

AUTHORS

Damien Miller <djm@openbsd.org>
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