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
- -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
- --cert-level=CERTLEVEL
- certification level to sign the key with
- -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 is to use
sendmail.)
- -t TO, --to=TO
- Override destination email for testing (default is to use
the first uid on the key or send 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/
