SYNOPSIS
- apt-key [--keyring filename] {add filename | del keyid | export keyid | exportall | list | finger | adv | update | net-update | {-v | --version} | {-h | --help}}
DESCRIPTION
apt-key
Note that if usage of apt-key is desired the additional installation of the GNU Privacy Guard suite (packaged in gnupg) is required. For this reason alone the programatic usage (especially in package maintainerscripts!) is strongly discouraged. Further more the output format of all commands is undefined and can and does change whenever the underlying commands change. apt-key will try to detect such usage and generates warnings on stderr in these cases.
COMMANDS
add filename
-
Add a new key to the list of trusted keys. The key is read from the filename given with the parameter
filename
or if the filename is
-
from standard input.
It is critical that keys added manually via apt-key are verified to belong to the owner of the repositories they claim to be for otherwise the apt-secure(8) infrastructure is completely undermined.
Instead of using this command a keyring can be placed directly in the /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/ directory with a descriptive name (same rules for filename apply as for apt.conf(5) files) and "gpg" as file extension.
del keyid
- Remove a key from the list of trusted keys.
export keyid
- Output the key keyid to standard output.
exportall
- Output all trusted keys to standard output.
list, finger
- List trusted keys with fingerprints.
adv
- Pass advanced options to gpg. With adv --recv-key you can e.g. download key from keyservers directly into the the trusted set of keys. Note that there are no checks performed, so it is easy to completely undermine the apt-secure(8) infrastructure if used without care.
update (deprecated)
-
Update the local keyring with the archive keyring and remove from the local keyring the archive keys which are no longer valid. The archive keyring is shipped in the
archive-keyring
package of your distribution, e.g. the
debian-archive-keyring
package in Debian.
Note that a distribution does not need to and in fact should not use this command any longer and instead ship keyring files in the /etc/apt/trusted.gpg directory directly as this avoids a dependency on gnupg and it is easier to manage keys by simply adding and removing files for maintainers and users alike.
net-update
- Perform an update working similarly to the update command above, but get the archive keyring from a URI instead and validate it against a master key. This requires an installed wget(1) and an APT build configured to have a server to fetch from and a master keyring to validate. APT in Debian does not support this command, relying on update instead, but Ubuntu's APT does.
OPTIONS
Note that options need to be defined before the commands described in the previous section.
--keyring filename
- With this option it is possible to specify a particular keyring file the command should operate on. The default is that a command is executed on the trusted.gpg file as well as on all parts in the trusted.gpg.d directory, though trusted.gpg is the primary keyring which means that e.g. new keys are added to this one.
FILES
/etc/apt/trusted.gpg
- Keyring of local trusted keys, new keys will be added here. Configuration Item: Dir::Etc::Trusted.
/etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/
- File fragments for the trusted keys, additional keyrings can be stored here (by other packages or the administrator). Configuration Item Dir::Etc::TrustedParts.
BUGS
m[blue]APT bug pagem[][1]. If you wish to report a bug in APT, please see /usr/share/doc/debian/bug-reporting.txt or the reportbug(1) command.
AUTHOR
APT was written by the APT team <[email protected]>.
AUTHORS
Jason Gunthorpe
APT team
NOTES
- 1.
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APT bug page