1. NAME▲

seahorse-agent - seahorse pass phrase caching agent

2. SYNOPSIS ▲

seahorse-agent [ OPTION... ]

3. DESCRIPTION ▲

Seahorse is a GNOME application for managing encryption keys.

This is the agent program for seahorse which keeps a temporary secure storage of your pass phrases. It also works with the SSH agent to prompt you for SSH passphrases.

4. OPTIONS ▲

4.1. Help options ▲

  • -?, --help
        Show summary of all options and exit.
  • --usage
        Display brief usage message and exit.

4.2. Application options ▲

  • -c, --cshell
        Print variables in for a C type shell.
  • -d, --no-daemonize
        Do not daemonize seahorse-agent.
  • -A, --any-display
        Don't try to make sure requests only come from the X display on which seahorse-agent was started.
  • --v, --variables
        Display variables instead of editing gpg.conf.

4.3. Additional options ▲

In addition, the usual GTK+ and GNOME command line options apply. See the output of --help for details.

5. VERSION ▲

This man page describes seahorse-agent version 0.9.

6. BUGS ▲

If you find a bug, please report it at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=seahorse.

7. AUTHORS ▲

Jacob Perkins <>

Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo <>

Jean Schurger <>

Stef Walter <>

Adam Schreiber <>

This man page was originally written by Michael Mende <> for the Debian system.

8. COPYRIGHT ▲


Copyright (C) 2001, 2002 Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo
Copyright (C) 2002, 2003 Jacob Perkins
Copyright (C) 2004, 2006 Nate Nielsen, Adam Schreiber

9. LICENSE ▲


You are free to distribute this software under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
Documentation and help files are covered by GFDL license.

10. SEE ALSO ▲

seahorse-tool(1), seahorse-daemon(1)