keychain is a utility that helps manage ssh keys in a convenient and secure manner. It acts as a frontend to ssh-agent, but allows the user to easily have one long running ssh-agent process per system, rather than the norm of one ssh-agent per login session. It 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.
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