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+ <refentryinfo>
+ &apt-author.jgunthorpe;
+ &apt-author.team;
+ &apt-email;
+ &apt-product;
+ <!-- The last update date -->
+ <date>2016-07-07T00:00:00Z</date>
+ </refentryinfo>
+
<refmeta>
<refentrytitle>apt-key</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
<refpurpose>APT key management utility</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
- <!-- Arguments -->
- <refsynopsisdiv>
- <cmdsynopsis>
- <command>apt-key</command>
- <arg><option>--keyring <replaceable>filename</replaceable></option></arg>
- <arg><replaceable>command</replaceable></arg>
- <arg rep="repeat"><option><replaceable>arguments</replaceable></option></arg>
- </cmdsynopsis>
- </refsynopsisdiv>
+ &synopsis-command-apt-key;
<refsect1><title>Description</title>
<para>
by apt to authenticate packages. Packages which have been
authenticated using these keys will be considered trusted.
</para>
+ <para>
+ Note that if usage of <command>apt-key</command> is desired the additional
+ installation of the GNU Privacy Guard suite (packaged in
+ <package>gnupg</package>) is required. For this reason alone the programmatic
+ usage (especially in package maintainerscripts!) is strongly discouraged.
+ Further more the output format of all commands is undefined and can and does
+ change whenever the underlying commands change. <command>apt-key</command> will
+ try to detect such usage and generates warnings on stderr in these cases.
+ </para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1><title>Commands</title>
<variablelist>
- <varlistentry><term>add <replaceable>filename</replaceable></term>
+ <varlistentry><term><option>add</option> <option>&synopsis-param-filename;</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>
-
- Add a new key to the list of trusted keys. The key is read
- from <replaceable>filename</replaceable>, or standard input if
- <replaceable>filename</replaceable> is <literal>-</literal>.
+ Add a new key to the list of trusted keys.
+ The key is read from the filename given with the parameter
+ &synopsis-param-filename; or if the filename is <literal>-</literal>
+ from standard input.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ It is critical that keys added manually via <command>apt-key</command> are
+ verified to belong to the owner of the repositories they claim to be for
+ otherwise the &apt-secure; infrastructure is completely undermined.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Instead of using this command a keyring can be placed directly in the
+ <filename>/etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/</filename> directory with a descriptive name
+ (same rules for filename apply as for &apt-conf; files) and "<literal>gpg</literal>"
+ as file extension.
</para>
-
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
- <varlistentry><term>del <replaceable>keyid</replaceable></term>
+ <varlistentry><term><option>del</option> <option>&synopsis-param-keyid;</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
- <varlistentry><term>export <replaceable>keyid</replaceable></term>
+ <varlistentry><term><option>export</option> <option>&synopsis-param-keyid;</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>
- Output the key <replaceable>keyid</replaceable> to standard output.
+ Output the key &synopsis-param-keyid; to standard output.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
- <varlistentry><term>exportall</term>
+ <varlistentry><term><option>exportall</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
- <varlistentry><term>list</term>
+ <varlistentry><term><option>list</option>, <option>finger</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>
- List trusted keys.
+ List trusted keys with fingerprints.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry><term>finger</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
-
- List fingerprints of trusted keys.
-
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry><term>adv</term>
+ <varlistentry><term><option>adv</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>
-
- Pass advanced options to gpg. With adv --recv-key you can download the
- public key.
-
+ Pass advanced options to gpg. With <command>adv --recv-key</command> you
+ can e.g. download key from keyservers directly into the the trusted set of
+ keys. Note that there are <emphasis>no</emphasis> checks performed, so it is
+ easy to completely undermine the &apt-secure; infrastructure if used without
+ care.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
- <varlistentry><term>update</term>
+ <varlistentry><term><option>update</option> (deprecated)</term>
<listitem>
<para>
-
- Update the local keyring with the keyring of Debian archive
- keys and removes from the keyring the archive keys which are no
- longer valid.
-
+ Update the local keyring with the archive keyring and remove from
+ the local keyring the archive keys which are no longer valid.
+ The archive keyring is shipped in the <literal>archive-keyring</literal> package of your
+ distribution, e.g. the &keyring-package; package in &keyring-distro;.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Note that a distribution does not need to and in fact should not use
+ this command any longer and instead ship keyring files in the
+ <filename>/etc/apt/trusted.gpg</filename> directory directly as this
+ avoids a dependency on <package>gnupg</package> and it is easier to manage
+ keys by simply adding and removing files for maintainers and users alike.
</para>
-
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
- <varlistentry><term>net-update</term>
+ <varlistentry><term><option>net-update</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>
- Update the local keyring with the keys of a key server
- and removes from the keyring the archive keys which are no
- longer valid. This requires an installed wget and an APT
- build configured to have a server to fetch from. APT in
- Debian does not support this command, but Ubuntu's APT
- does.
+ Perform an update working similarly to the <command>update</command> command above,
+ but get the archive keyring from a URI instead and validate it against a master key.
+
+ This requires an installed &wget; and an APT build configured to have
+ a server to fetch from and a master keyring to validate.
+
+ APT in Debian does not support this command, relying on
+ <command>update</command> instead, but Ubuntu's APT does.
</para>
<refsect1><title>Options</title>
<para>Note that options need to be defined before the commands described in the previous section.</para>
<variablelist>
- <varlistentry><term>--keyring <replaceable>filename</replaceable></term>
- <listitem><para>With this option it is possible to specify a specific keyring
+ <varlistentry><term><option>--keyring</option> <option>&synopsis-param-filename;</option></term>
+ <listitem><para>With this option it is possible to specify a particular keyring
file the command should operate on. The default is that a command is executed
on the <filename>trusted.gpg</filename> file as well as on all parts in the
- <filename>trusted.gpg.d</filename> directory, through <filename>trusted.gpg</filename>
+ <filename>trusted.gpg.d</filename> directory, though <filename>trusted.gpg</filename>
is the primary keyring which means that e.g. new keys are added to this one.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
&file-trustedgpg;
- <varlistentry><term><filename>/etc/apt/trustdb.gpg</filename></term>
- <listitem><para>Local trust database of archive keys.</para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry><term><filename>/usr/share/keyrings/debian-archive-keyring.gpg</filename></term>
- <listitem><para>Keyring of Debian archive trusted keys.</para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry><term><filename>/usr/share/keyrings/debian-archive-removed-keys.gpg</filename></term>
- <listitem><para>Keyring of Debian archive removed trusted keys.</para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
</variablelist>
</refsect1>
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