--options file- Reads configuration from file instead of from the default
per-user configuration file. The default configuration file is named
gpgsm.conf and expected in the home directory.
--homedir dir- Set the name of the home directory to dir. This option is only
effective when used on the command line. The default depends on the
running mode:
- With
--daemon given on the commandline - the directory named /etc/dirmngr for configuration files,
/var/lib/dirmngr/ for extra data and /var/cache/dirmngr
for cached CRLs.
- Without
--daemon given on the commandline - the directory named .gnupg directly below the home directory
of the user unless the environment variable
GNUPGHOME has been set
in which case its value will be used. All kind of data is stored below
this directory.
-v
--verbose- Outputs additional information while running.
You can increase the verbosity by giving several
verbose commands to dirmngr, such as -vv.
--log-file file- Append all logging output to file. This is very helpful in
seeing what the agent actually does.
--debug-level level- Select the debug level for investigating problems. level may be
one of:
none- no debugging at all.
basic- some basic debug messages
advanced- more verbose debug messages
expert- even more detailed messages
guru- all of the debug messages you can get
How these messages are mapped to the actual debugging flags is not
specified and may change with newer releases of this program. They are
however carefully selected to best aid in debugging.
--debug flags- This option is only useful for debugging and the behaviour may change at
any time without notice. FLAGS are bit encoded and may be given in
usual C-Syntax.
--debug-all- Same as
--debug=0xffffffff
--debug-wait n- When running in server mode, wait n seconds before entering the
actual processing loop and print the pid. This gives time to attach a
debugger.
-s--sh-c--csh- Format the info output in daemon mode for use with the standard Bourne
shell respective the C-shell . The default ist to guess it based on the
environment variable
SHELL which is in almost all cases
sufficient.
--force- Enabling this option forces loading of expired CRLs; this is only
useful for debugging.
--disable-ldap- Entirely disables the use of LDAP.
--disable-http- Entirely disables the use of HTTP.
--ignore-http-dp- When looking for the location of a CRL, the to be tested certificate
usually contains so called CRL Distribution Point (DP) entries
which are URLs describing the way to access the CRL. The first found DP
entry is used. With this option all entries using the HTTP
scheme are ignored when looking for a suitable DP.
--ignore-ldap-dp- This is similar to --ignore-http-dp but ignores entries using
the LDAP scheme. Both options may be combined resulting in
ignoring DPs entirely.
--ignore-ocsp-service-url- Ignore all OCSP URLs contained in the certificate. The effect is to
force the use of the default responder.
--honor-http-proxy- If the environment variable http_proxy has been set, use its
value to access HTTP servers.
--http-proxy host[:port]- Use host and port to access HTTP servers. The use of this
options overrides the environment variable http_proxy regardless
whether --honor-http-proxy has been set.
--ldap-proxy host[:port]- Use host and port to connect to LDAP servers. If port
is ommitted, port 389 (standard LDAP port) is used. This overrides any
specified host and port part in a LDAP URL and will also be used if host
and port have been ommitted from the URL.
--only-ldap-proxy- Never use anything else but the LDAP "proxy" as configured with
--ldap-proxy. Usually dirmngr tries to use other
configured LDAP server if the connection using the "proxy" failed.
--ldapserverlist-file file- Read the list of LDAP servers to consult for CRLs and certificates from
file instead of the default per-user ldap server list file. The default
value for file is dirmngr_ldapservers.conf or
ldapservers.conf when running in --daemon mode.
This server list file contains one LDAP server per line in the format
hostname:port:username:password:base_dn
Lines starting with a ‘#’ are comments.
Note that as usual all strings entered are expected to be UTF-8 encoded.
Obviously this will lead to problems if the password has orginally been
encoded as Latin-1. There is no other solution here than to put such a
password in the binary encoding into the file (i.e. non-ascii characters
won't show up readable).1
--ldaptimeout secs- Specify the number of seconds to wait for an LDAP query before timing
out. The default is currently 100 seconds. 0 will never timeout.
--add-servers- This options makes dirmngr add any servers it discovers when validating
certificates against CRLs to the internal list of servers to consult for
certificates and CRLs.
This options is useful when trying to validate a certificate that has
a CRL distribution point that points to a server that is not already
listed in the ldapserverlist. Dirmngr will always go to this server and
try to download the CRL, but chances are high that the certificate used
to sign the CRL is located on the same server. So if dirmngr doesn't add
that new server to list, it will often not be able to verify the
signature of the CRL unless the --add-servers option is used.
Note: The current version of dirmngr has this option disabled by default.
--allow-ocsp- This option enables OCSP support if requested by the client.
OCSP requests are rejected by default because they may violate the
privacy of the user; for example it is possible to track the time when
a user is reading a mail.
--ocsp-responder url- Use url as the default OCSP Responder if the certificate does
not contain information about an assigned responder. Note, that
--ocsp-signer must also be set to a valid certificate.
--ocsp-signer fpr|file- Use the certificate with the fingerprint fpr to check the
responses of the default OCSP Responder. Alternativly a filename can be
given in which case the respinse is expected to be signed by one of the
certificates described in that file. Any argument which contains a
slash, dot or tilde is considered a filename. Usual filename expansion
takes place: A tilde at the start followed by a slash is replaced by the
content of HOME, no slash at start describes a relative filename
which will be searched at the home directory. To make sure that the
file is searched in the home directory, either prepend the name
with "./" or use a name which contains a dot.
If a response has been signed by a certificate described by these
fingerprints no further check upon the validity of this certificate is
done.
The format of the FILE is a list of SHA-1 fingerprint, one per
line with optional colons between the bytes. Empty lines and lines
prefix with a hash mark are ignored.
--ocsp-max-clock-skew n- The number of seconds a skew between the OCSP responder and them local
clock is accepted. Default is 600 (20 minutes).
--ocsp-max-period n- Seconds a response is at maximum considered valid after the time given
in the thisUpdate field. Default is 7776000 (90 days).
--ocsp-current-period n- The number of seconds an OCSP response is considered valid after the
time given in the NEXT_UPDATE datum. Default is 10800 (3 hours).
--max-replies n- Do not return more that n items in one query. The default is
10.