NAME¶
monkeysign - sign a key in a safe fashion.
SYNOPSIS¶
monkeysign [options] <keyid>
DESCRIPTION¶
This command signs a key based on the fingerprint or user id specified on the
commandline, encrypt the result and mail it to the user. This leave the choice
of publishing the certification to that person and makes sure that person owns
the identity signed.
This program assumes you have gpg-agent configured to prompt for passwords.
OPTIONS¶
- -h, --help
- show this help message and exit
- --version
- show version information and quit
- -d, --debug
- request debugging information from GPG engine (lots of garbage)
- -v, --verbose
- explain what we do along the way
- -n, --dry-run
- do not actually do anything
- -u USER, --user=USER
- user id to sign the key with (equivalent to GPG's --local-user
option)
- --cert-level=CERTLEVEL
- certification level to sign the key with (equivalent to GPG's
--default-cert-level)
- -l, --local
- import in normal keyring a local certification
- -k KEYSERVER, --keyserver=KEYSERVER
- keyserver to fetch keys from
- -s SMTPSERVER, --smtp=SMTPSERVER
- SMTP server to use, use a colon to specify the port number if
non-standard
- --smtpuser=SMTPUSER
- username for the SMTP server (default: no user)
- --smtppass=SMTPPASS
- password for the SMTP server (default: prompted, if --smtpuser is
specified)
- --no-mail
- do not send email at all (default: use sendmail)
- -t TO, --to=TO
- override destination email for testing (default: send individually
encrypted email to each uid chosen)
AUTHORS¶
monkeysign was written by Antoine Beaupré
<anarcat@debian.org>.
DISTRIBUTION¶
The latest version of monkeysign may be downloaded from
http://web.monkeysphere.info/