cf-key(8) make private/public key-pairs for CFEngine authentication

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/

BUGS

Please see the public bug-tracker at http://bug.cfengine.com/.
GitHub pull-requests may be submitted to http://github.com/cfengine/core/.

AUTHOR

Mark Burgess and CFEngine AS