UPDATE-CA-CERTIFICATES
Section: Maintenance Commands (8)
Updated: 20 April 2003
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NAME
update-ca-certificates - update /etc/ssl/certs and ca-certificates.crt
SYNOPSIS
update-ca-certificates
[
options]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the
update-ca-certificates
command.
update-ca-certificates is a program that updates the directory
/etc/ssl/certs to hold SSL certificates and generates ca-certificates.crt,
a concatenated single-file list of certificates.
It reads the file /etc/ca-certificates.conf. Each line gives a pathname of
a CA certificate under /usr/share/ca-certificates that should be trusted.
Lines that begin with "#" are comment lines and thus ignored.
Lines that begin with "!" are deselected, causing the deactivation of the CA
certificate in question. Certificates must have a .crt extension in order to
be included by update-ca-certificates.
Furthermore all certificates with a .crt extension found below
/usr/local/share/ca-certificates are also included as implicitly trusted.
Before terminating, update-ca-certificates invokes
run-parts on /etc/ca-certificates/update.d and calls each hook with
a list of certificates: those added are prefixed with a +, those removed are
prefixed with a -.
OPTIONS
A summary of options is included below.
- -h, --help
-
Show summary of options.
- -v, --verbose
-
Be verbose. Output openssl rehash.
- -f, --fresh
-
Fresh updates. Remove symlinks in /etc/ssl/certs directory.
FILES
- /etc/ca-certificates.conf
-
A configuration file.
- /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
-
A single-file version of CA certificates. This holds
all CA certificates that you activated in /etc/ca-certificates.conf.
- /usr/share/ca-certificates
-
Directory of CA certificates.
- /usr/local/share/ca-certificates
-
Directory of local CA certificates (with .crt extension).
SEE ALSO
openssl(1)
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Fumitoshi UKAI <
ukai@debian.or.jp>,
for the Debian project (but may be used by others).