Keychain

keychain is a program used to allow reuse of ssh-agent and gpg-agent between logins, so that those programs only have to be invoked when the whole system is rebooted.

Provided by
Originally written by the president and CEO of the Gentoo project, gentoo remains as far upstream as it gets. Other distributions tend to have it in a package by itself.

Related commands

 * ssh
 * scp
 * ssh-agent
 * ssh-keygen