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Diffstat (limited to 'nixpkgs/pkgs/tools/misc/keychain')
| -rw-r--r-- | nixpkgs/pkgs/tools/misc/keychain/default.nix | 12 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/nixpkgs/pkgs/tools/misc/keychain/default.nix b/nixpkgs/pkgs/tools/misc/keychain/default.nix index 133a461964bd..208c04ff039b 100644 --- a/nixpkgs/pkgs/tools/misc/keychain/default.nix +++ b/nixpkgs/pkgs/tools/misc/keychain/default.nix @@ -38,5 +38,17 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec { with stdenv.lib; platforms.linux ++ platforms.darwin; maintainers = with stdenv.lib.maintainers; [ sigma ]; + longDescription = '' + Keychain helps you to manage SSH and GPG keys in a convenient and secure + manner. It acts as a frontend to ssh-agent and ssh-add, but allows you + to easily have one long running ssh-agent process per system, rather + than the norm of one ssh-agent per login session. + + This dramatically reduces the number of times you need to enter your + passphrase. With keychain, you only need to enter a passphrase once + every time your local machine is rebooted. Keychain also makes it easy + for remote cron jobs to securely "hook in" to a long-running ssh-agent + process, allowing your scripts to take advantage of key-based logins. + ''; }; } |