SSH-PKCS11-HELPER(8)

✨ NAME ✨

ssh-pkcs11-helper — the OpenSSH helper for PKCS#11 support 💖

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

ssh-pkcs11-helper [-v]

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

okay so ssh-pkcs11-helper is the behind-the-scenes bestie for ssh(1), ssh-agent(1), and ssh-keygen(1) 🫶 It's how they get to use keys that live on a PKCS#11 token. Iconic teamwork 👑

bestie, you are not supposed to run this yourself 🙈 the other programs call it for you. Main character energy is letting them handle it.

Only one option exists, and it's giving simple:

• -v — verbose mode 🔍 This makes ssh-pkcs11-helper chat about what it's doing so you can debug stuff when things go sideways 😭 You can stack -v more than once to turn the volume up, but the max is 3, no cap.

Lowkey fun fact: ssh(1), ssh-agent(1), and ssh-keygen(1) will automatically pass -v along to ssh-pkcs11-helper if they are already in debug mode ✨

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

ssh(1), ssh-agent(1), ssh-keygen(1) 🌸

📜 HISTORY 📜

ssh-pkcs11-helper first showed up in OpenBSD 4.7 🍓 It's been around the block.

👑 AUTHORS 👑

Markus Friedl <markus@openbsd.org> 💜

✨ Signing off from the Debian crew, April 29, 2022, SSH-PKCS11-HELPER(8) 🌈💖