SYNOPSIS

cf-key [OPTION]...

DESCRIPTION

The CFEngine key generator makes key pairs for remote authentication.

OPTIONS

--help, -h

Print the help message

--debug, -d

Enable debugging output

--verbose, -v

Output verbose information about the behaviour of the agent

--version, -V

Output the version of the software

--output-file, -f

Specify an alternative output file than the default (localhost)

--show-hosts, -s

Show lastseen hostnames and IP addresses

--remove-keys, -r

Remove keys for specified hostname/IP

--force-removal, -x

Force removal of keys (USE AT YOUR OWN RISK)

--install-license, -l

Install license file on Enterprise server (CFEngine Enterprise Only)

--print-digest, -p

Print digest of the specified public key

--trust-key, -t

Make cf-serverd/cf-agent trust the specified public key

--color, -C

Enable colorized output. Possible values: 'always', 'auto', 'never'. If option is used, the default value is 'auto'

CFENGINE

CFEngine provides automated configuration management of large-scale computer systems. A system administrator describes the desired state of a system using CFEngine policy code. The program cf-agent reads policy code and attempts to bring the current system state to the desired state described. Policy code is downloaded by cf-agent from a cf-serverd daemon. The daemon cf-execd is responsible for running cf-agent periodically.
Documentation for CFEngine is available at http://cfengine.com/documentation/.

PROMISE THEORY

CFEngine is built on principles from promise theory, proposed by Mark Burgess in 2004. Promise theory is a model of voluntary cooperation between individual, autonomous actors or agents who publish their intentions to one another in the form of promises. A promise is a declaration of intent whose purpose is to increase the recipient's certainty about a claim of past, present or future behaviour. For a promise to increase certainty, the recipient needs to trust the promiser, but trust can also be built on the verification that previous promises have been kept, thus trust plays a symbiotic relationship with promises.
For an introduction to promise theory, please see http://arxiv.org/abs/0810.3294/

AVAILABILITY

cf-key is part of CFEngine.
Binary packages may be downloaded from http://cfengine.com/downloads/.
The source code is available at http://github.com/cfengine/

AUTHOR

Mark Burgess and CFEngine AS