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authorMatt Goins <mjgoins@openflows.com>2009-02-20 11:42:10 -0500
committerMatt Goins <mjgoins@openflows.com>2009-02-20 11:42:10 -0500
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@@ -58,22 +58,22 @@ were found but none were acceptable. `a' may be used in place of
.TP
.B gen-subkey [KEYID]
Generate an authentication subkey for a private key in your GnuPG
-keyring. For the primary key with the specified key ID, generate a
-subkey with "authentication" capability that can be used for
-monkeysphere transactions. An expiration length can be specified with
-the `-e' or `--expire' option (prompt otherwise). If no key ID is
+keyring. KEYID is the key ID for the primary key for which the subkey
+with "authentication" capability will be generated. If no key ID is
specified, but only one key exists in the secret keyring, that key
-will be used. `g' may be used in place of `gen-subkey'.
+will be used. The length of the generated key can be specified with
+the `--length` or `-l` option. `g' may be used in place of
+`gen-subkey'.
.TP
.B ssh-proxycommand
-an ssh proxy command that can be used
-to trigger a monkeysphere update of the ssh known_hosts file for a
-host that is being connected to with ssh. This works by updating the
-known_hosts file for the host first, before an attempted connection to
-the host is made. Once the known_hosts file has been updated, a TCP
-connection to the host is made by exec'ing netcat(1). Regular ssh
-communication is then done over this netcat TCP connection (see
-ProxyCommand in ssh_config(5) for more info).
+An ssh ProxyCommand that can be used to trigger a monkeysphere update
+of the ssh known_hosts file for a host that is being connected to with
+ssh. This works by updating the known_hosts file for the host first,
+before an attempted connection to the host is made. Once the
+known_hosts file has been updated, a TCP connection to the host is
+made by exec'ing netcat(1). Regular ssh communication is then done
+over this netcat TCP connection (see ProxyCommand in ssh_config(5) for
+more info).
This command is meant to be run as the ssh "ProxyCommand". This can
either be done by specifying the proxy command on the command line:
@@ -108,9 +108,10 @@ change in the future, possibly by adding a deferred check, so that
hosts that go from non-monkeysphere-enabled to monkeysphere-enabled
will be properly checked.
-Setting the MONKEYSPHERE_CHECK_KEYSERVER
-variable (to `true' or `false') will override the keyserver-checking policy
-defined above.
+Setting the CHECK_KEYSERVER variable in the config file or the
+MONKEYSPHERE_CHECK_KEYSERVER environment variable to either `true' or
+`false' will override the keyserver-checking policy defined above and
+either always or never check the keyserver for host key updates.
.TP
.B subkey-to-ssh-agent [ssh-add arguments]
@@ -152,6 +153,9 @@ Whether or not to hash to the known_hosts file entries (`true').
.TP
MONKEYSPHERE_AUTHORIZED_KEYS
Path to ssh authorized_keys file (~/.ssh/authorized_keys).
+.TP
+MONKEYSPHERE_PROMPT
+If set to `false', never prompt the user for confirmation. (true)
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