X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/apt.git/blobdiff_plain/45fb8bf7f0b3f1e5b69b37a2f9a07a6864448f03..995a4bf6d770a5cc824c38388909f23fcca558c3:/doc/apt-key.8.xml diff --git a/doc/apt-key.8.xml b/doc/apt-key.8.xml index cdb307b64..41628aff6 100644 --- a/doc/apt-key.8.xml +++ b/doc/apt-key.8.xml @@ -1,13 +1,9 @@ - -%aptent; - - -%aptverbatiment; - + %aptent; + %aptverbatiment; + %aptvendor; ]> @@ -17,7 +13,7 @@ &apt-email; &apt-product; - 2012-05-21T00:00:00Z + 2012-06-09T00:00:00Z @@ -52,7 +48,11 @@ &synopsis-param-filename; or if the filename is - from standard input. - + + It is critical that keys added manually via apt-key are + verified to belong to the owner of the repositories they claim to be for + otherwise the &apt-secure; infrastructure is completely undermined. + @@ -114,10 +114,11 @@ - - Pass advanced options to gpg. With adv --recv-key you can download the - public key. - + Pass advanced options to gpg. With adv --recv-key you + can e.g. download key from keyservers directly into the the trusted set of + keys. Note that there are no checks performed, so it is + easy to completely undermine the &apt-secure; infrastructure if used without + care. @@ -130,7 +131,7 @@ Update the local keyring with the archive keyring and remove from the local keyring the archive keys which are no longer valid.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 archive-keyring package of your - distribution, e.g. the debian-archive-keyring package in Debian. + distribution, e.g. the &keyring-package; package in &keyring-distro;. @@ -141,13 +142,13 @@ - Work similar to the update command above, but get the - archive keyring from an URI instead and validate it against a master key. + Perform an update working similarly to the update 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 and relies on + APT in Debian does not support this command, relying on update instead, but Ubuntu's APT does. @@ -161,7 +162,7 @@ Note that options need to be defined before the commands described in the previous section. - With this option it is possible to specify a specific keyring + 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 trusted.gpg file as well as on all parts in the trusted.gpg.d directory, though trusted.gpg @@ -180,12 +181,12 @@ Local trust database of archive keys. - /usr/share/keyrings/debian-archive-keyring.gpg - Keyring of Debian archive trusted keys. + &keyring-filename; + Keyring of &keyring-distro; archive trusted keys. - /usr/share/keyrings/debian-archive-removed-keys.gpg - Keyring of Debian archive removed trusted keys. + &keyring-removed-filename; + Keyring of &keyring-distro; archive removed trusted keys.