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.TH MONKEYSPHERE "1" "June 2008" "monkeysphere 0.1" "User Commands"

.SH NAME

monkeysphere \- Monkeysphere client user interface

.SH SYNOPSIS

.B monkeysphere \fIsubcommand\fP [\fIargs\fP]

.SH DESCRIPTION

\fBMonkeysphere\fP is a framework to leverage the OpenPGP web of trust
for OpenSSH authentication.  OpenPGP keys are tracked via GnuPG, and
added to the authorized_keys and known_hosts files used by OpenSSH for
connection authentication.

\fBmonkeysphere\fP is the Monkeysphere client utility.

.SH SUBCOMMANDS

\fBmonkeysphere\fP takes various subcommands:
.TP
.B update-known_hosts [HOST]...
Update the known_hosts file.  For each specified host, gpg will be
queried for a key associated with the host URI (see HOST
IDENTIFICATION in
.BR monkeysphere(7)),
optionally querying a keyserver.
If an acceptable key is found for the host (see KEY ACCEPTABILITY in
.BR monkeysphere(7)),
the key is added to the user's known_hosts file.  If a key is found
but is unacceptable for the host, any matching keys are removed from
the user's known_hosts file.  If no gpg key is found for the host,
nothing is done.  If no hosts are specified, all hosts listed in the
known_hosts file will be processed.  This subcommand will exit with a
status of 0 if at least one acceptable key was found for a specified
host, 1 if no matching keys were found at all, and 2 if matching keys
were found but none were acceptable.  `k' may be used in place of
`update-known_hosts'.
.TP
.B update-authorized_keys
Update the authorized_keys file for the user executing the command
(see MONKEYSPHERE_AUTHORIZED_KEYS in ENVIRONMENT, below).  First all
monkeysphere keys are cleared from the authorized_keys file.  Then, or
each user ID in the user's authorized_user_ids file, gpg will be
queried for keys associated with that user ID, optionally querying a
keyserver.  If an acceptable key is found (see KEY ACCEPTABILITY in
.BR monkeysphere (7)),
the key is added to the user's authorized_keys file.
If a key is found but is unacceptable for the user ID, any matching
keys are removed from the user's authorized_keys file.  If no gpg key
is found for the user ID, nothing is done.  This subcommand will exit
with a status of 0 if at least one acceptable key was found for a user
ID, 1 if no matching keys were found at all, and 2 if matching keys
were found but none were acceptable.  `a' may be used in place of
`update-authorized_keys'.
.TP
.B gen-subkey [KEYID]
Generate an authentication subkey for a private key in your GnuPG
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.  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 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:

.B ssh -o ProxyCommand="monkeysphere ssh-proxycommand %h %p" ...

or by adding the following line to your ~/.ssh/config script:

.B ProxyCommand monkeysphere ssh-proxycommand %h %p

The script can easily be incorporated into other ProxyCommand scripts
by calling it with the "--no-connect" option, i.e.:

.B monkeysphere ssh-proxycommand --no-connect "$HOST" "$PORT"

This will run everything except the final exec of netcat to make the
TCP connection to the host.  In this way this command can be added to
another proxy command that does other stuff, and then makes the
connection to the host itself.

KEYSERVER CHECKING:
The proxy command has a fairly nuanced policy for when keyservers are
queried when processing a host.  If the host userID is not found in
either the user's keyring or in the known_hosts file, then the
keyserver is queried for the host userID.  If the host userID is found
in the user's keyring, then the keyserver is not checked.  This
assumes that the keyring is kept up-to-date, in a cronjob or the like,
so that revocations are properly handled.  If the host userID is not
found in the user's keyring, but the host is listed in the known_hosts
file, then the keyserver is not checked.  This last policy might
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 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]
Push all authentication-capable subkeys in your GnuPG secret keyring
into your running ssh-agent.  Additional arguments are passed through
to
.BR ssh-add (1).
For example, to remove the authentication subkeys, pass an additional
`-d' argument.  To require confirmation on each use of the key, pass
`-c'.  `s' may be used in place of `subkey-to-ssh-agent'.
.TP
.B help
Output a brief usage summary.  `h' or `?' may be used in place of
`help'.

.SH ENVIRONMENT

The following environment variables will override those specified in
the monkeysphere.conf configuration file (defaults in parentheses):
.TP
MONKEYSPHERE_LOG_LEVEL
Set the log level (INFO).  Can be SILENT, ERROR, INFO, VERBOSE, DEBUG,
in increasing order of verbosity.
.TP
MONKEYSPHERE_GNUPGHOME, GNUPGHOME
GnuPG home directory (~/.gnupg).
.TP
MONKEYSPHERE_KEYSERVER
OpenPGP keyserver to use (subkeys.pgp.net).
.TP
MONKEYSPHERE_CHECK_KEYSERVER
Whether or not to check keyserver when making gpg queries (`true').
.TP
MONKEYSPHERE_KNOWN_HOSTS
Path to ssh known_hosts file (~/.ssh/known_hosts).
.TP
MONKEYSPHERE_HASH_KNOWN_HOSTS
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)

.SH FILES

.TP
~/.monkeysphere/monkeysphere.conf
User monkeysphere config file.
.TP
/etc/monkeysphere/monkeysphere.conf
System-wide monkeysphere config file.
.TP
~/.monkeysphere/authorized_user_ids
OpenPGP user IDs associated with keys that will be checked for
addition to the authorized_keys file.

.SH AUTHOR

Written by:
Jameson Rollins <jrollins@fifthhorseman.net>,
Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>

.SH SEE ALSO

.BR monkeysphere-host (8),
.BR monkeysphere-authentication (8),
.BR monkeysphere (7),
.BR ssh (1),
.BR ssh-add (1),
.BR gpg (1)