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b3d44315 1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="no"?>
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2<!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
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4<!ENTITY % aptent SYSTEM "apt.ent"> %aptent;
5<!ENTITY % aptverbatiment SYSTEM "apt-verbatim.ent"> %aptverbatiment;
6<!ENTITY % aptvendor SYSTEM "apt-vendor.ent"> %aptvendor;
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7]>
8
9<refentry>
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10 <refentryinfo>
11 &apt-author.jgunthorpe;
12 &apt-author.team;
13 &apt-email;
14 &apt-product;
15 <!-- The last update date -->
4bdf29d3 16 <date>2016-07-07T00:00:00Z</date>
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17 </refentryinfo>
18
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19 <refmeta>
20 <refentrytitle>apt-key</refentrytitle>
21 <manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
f0599b9c 22 <refmiscinfo class="manual">APT</refmiscinfo>
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23 </refmeta>
24
25 <!-- Man page title -->
26 <refnamediv>
27 <refname>apt-key</refname>
28 <refpurpose>APT key management utility</refpurpose>
29 </refnamediv>
30
6e8b4572 31 &synopsis-command-apt-key;
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32
33 <refsect1><title>Description</title>
34 <para>
35 <command>apt-key</command> is used to manage the list of keys used
36 by apt to authenticate packages. Packages which have been
37 authenticated using these keys will be considered trusted.
38 </para>
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39 <para>
40 Note that if usage of <command>apt-key</command> is desired the additional
41 installation of the GNU Privacy Guard suite (packaged in
b9e6db82 42 <package>gnupg</package>) is required. For this reason alone the programmatic
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43 usage (especially in package maintainerscripts!) is strongly discouraged.
44 Further more the output format of all commands is undefined and can and does
45 change whenever the underlying commands change. <command>apt-key</command> will
46 try to detect such usage and generates warnings on stderr in these cases.
47 </para>
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48</refsect1>
49
50<refsect1><title>Commands</title>
51 <variablelist>
2b9b27c3 52 <varlistentry><term><option>add</option> <option>&synopsis-param-filename;</option></term>
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53 <listitem>
54 <para>
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55 Add a new key to the list of trusted keys.
56 The key is read from the filename given with the parameter
57 &synopsis-param-filename; or if the filename is <literal>-</literal>
58 from standard input.
b3d44315 59 </para>
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60 <para>
61 It is critical that keys added manually via <command>apt-key</command> are
62 verified to belong to the owner of the repositories they claim to be for
63 otherwise the &apt-secure; infrastructure is completely undermined.
64 </para>
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65 <para>
66 Instead of using this command a keyring can be placed directly in the
67 <filename>/etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/</filename> directory with a descriptive name
68 (same rules for filename apply as for &apt-conf; files) and "<literal>gpg</literal>"
69 as file extension.
70 </para>
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71 </listitem>
72 </varlistentry>
73
2b9b27c3 74 <varlistentry><term><option>del</option> <option>&synopsis-param-keyid;</option></term>
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75 <listitem>
76 <para>
77
78 Remove a key from the list of trusted keys.
79
80 </para>
81
82 </listitem>
83 </varlistentry>
84
2b9b27c3 85 <varlistentry><term><option>export</option> <option>&synopsis-param-keyid;</option></term>
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86 <listitem>
87 <para>
88
6e8b4572 89 Output the key &synopsis-param-keyid; to standard output.
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90
91 </para>
92
93 </listitem>
94 </varlistentry>
95
2b9b27c3 96 <varlistentry><term><option>exportall</option></term>
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97 <listitem>
98 <para>
99
100 Output all trusted keys to standard output.
101
102 </para>
103
104 </listitem>
105 </varlistentry>
106
a5f9b45e 107 <varlistentry><term><option>list</option>, <option>finger</option></term>
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108 <listitem>
109 <para>
110
a5f9b45e 111 List trusted keys with fingerprints.
d2793259 112
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113 </para>
114
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115 </listitem>
116 </varlistentry>
a8cabc8f 117
2b9b27c3 118 <varlistentry><term><option>adv</option></term>
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119 <listitem>
120 <para>
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121 Pass advanced options to gpg. With <command>adv --recv-key</command> you
122 can e.g. download key from keyservers directly into the the trusted set of
123 keys. Note that there are <emphasis>no</emphasis> checks performed, so it is
124 easy to completely undermine the &apt-secure; infrastructure if used without
125 care.
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126 </para>
127
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128 </listitem>
129 </varlistentry>
d2793259 130
ec51fe3f 131 <varlistentry><term><option>update</option> (deprecated)</term>
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132 <listitem>
133 <para>
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134 Update the local keyring with the archive keyring and remove from
135 the local keyring the archive keys which are no longer valid.
136 The archive keyring is shipped in the <literal>archive-keyring</literal> package of your
694ef56e 137 distribution, e.g. the &keyring-package; package in &keyring-distro;.
d2793259 138 </para>
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139 <para>
140 Note that a distribution does not need to and in fact should not use
141 this command any longer and instead ship keyring files in the
142 <filename>/etc/apt/trusted.gpg</filename> directory directly as this
143 avoids a dependency on <package>gnupg</package> and it is easier to manage
144 keys by simply adding and removing files for maintainers and users alike.
145 </para>
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146 </listitem>
147 </varlistentry>
f37e6374 148
2b9b27c3 149 <varlistentry><term><option>net-update</option></term>
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150 <listitem>
151 <para>
152
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153 Perform an update working similarly to the <command>update</command> command above,
154 but get the archive keyring from a URI instead and validate it against a master key.
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156 This requires an installed &wget; and an APT build configured to have
157 a server to fetch from and a master keyring to validate.
158
6072cbe1 159 APT in Debian does not support this command, relying on
00c6e1a3 160 <command>update</command> instead, but Ubuntu's APT does.
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162 </para>
163
164 </listitem>
165 </varlistentry>
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166 </variablelist>
167</refsect1>
168
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169 <refsect1><title>Options</title>
170<para>Note that options need to be defined before the commands described in the previous section.</para>
171 <variablelist>
2b9b27c3 172 <varlistentry><term><option>--keyring</option> <option>&synopsis-param-filename;</option></term>
6072cbe1 173 <listitem><para>With this option it is possible to specify a particular keyring
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174 file the command should operate on. The default is that a command is executed
175 on the <filename>trusted.gpg</filename> file as well as on all parts in the
2130caa8 176 <filename>trusted.gpg.d</filename> directory, though <filename>trusted.gpg</filename>
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177 is the primary keyring which means that e.g. new keys are added to this one.
178 </para></listitem>
179 </varlistentry>
180 </variablelist>
181 </refsect1>
182
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183 <refsect1><title>Files</title>
184 <variablelist>
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185
186 &file-trustedgpg;
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b3d44315 188 </variablelist>
d2793259 189
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190</refsect1>
191
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192<refsect1><title>See Also</title>
193<para>
194&apt-get;, &apt-secure;
195</para>
196</refsect1>
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197
198 &manbugs;
199 &manauthor;
200
201</refentry>
202