Manual: keyboxd

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NAME
       keyboxd - Public key management for GnuPG

SYNOPSIS
       keyboxd [OPTIONS] [COMMAND]

DESCRIPTION
       keyboxd is a public key management service for GnuPG.

COMMANDS
       Commands are not distinguished from options except for the fact that only one command is allowed.

       --version
	      Print  the program version and licensing information.

       --help Print a usage message summarizing the most useful command-line options.

       --server
	      Run  in server mode and wait for commands on the stdin.  The default mode is to create a socket and listen for
	      commands there.  This is only used for testing.

       --daemon
	      Run in background daemon mode and listen for commands on a socket.  This is the way keyboxd is started on	 de‐
	      mand  by	the other GnuPG components.  To force starting keyboxd it is in general best to use gpgconf --launch
	      keyboxd.

       --supervised
	      Run in the foreground, sending logs to stderr, and listening on file descriptor 3, which must already be bound
	      to a listening socket.  This is useful when  running  under  systemd  or	other  similar	process	 supervision
	      schemes.	This option is not supported on Windows.

OPTIONS
       Note  that all long options with the exception of --options and --homedir may also be given in the configuration file
       after stripping off the two leading dashes.

       --options file
	      Reads configuration from file instead of from the default per-user configuration file.  The default configura‐
	      tion file is named ‘keyboxd.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  is  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.  Many kinds of data	 are  stored  within
	      this directory.

       -v

       --verbose
	      Outputs  additional  information while running.  You can increase the verbosity by giving several verbose com‐
	      mands to keyboxd, such as -vv.

       --log-file file
	      Append all logging output to file.  This is very	helpful	 in  seeing  what  the	agent  actually	 does.	 Use
	      ‘socket://’ to log to socket.

       --debug-level level
	      Select the debug level for investigating problems.  level may be a numeric value or by a keyword:

	      none   No debugging at all.  A value of less than 1 may be used instead of the keyword.

	      basic  Some basic debug messages.	 A value between 1 and 2 may be used instead of the keyword.

	      advanced
		     More verbose debug messages.  A value between 3 and 5 may be used instead of the keyword.

	      expert Even more detailed messages.  A value between 6 and 8 may be used instead of the keyword.

	      guru   All  of the debug messages you can get. A value greater than 8 may be used instead of the keyword.	 The
		     creation of hash tracing files is only enabled if the keyword is used.

       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
	      Set debugging flags.  This option is only useful for debugging and its behavior may change with a new release.
	      All flags are or-ed and may be given in C syntax (e.g. 0x0042) or as a comma separated list of flag names.  To
	      get a list of all supported flags the single word "help" can be used.

       --debug-all
	      Same as --debug=0xffffffff

FILES
       Keyboxd	uses  a configuration file which controls the operation of keyboxd.  By default they may all be found in the
       current home directory (see: [option --homedir]).

       keyboxd.conf
	      This is the standard configuration file read by keyboxd on startup.  It may contain any valid long option; the
	      leading two dashes may not be entered and the option may not be abbreviated.  This file is also read  after  a
	      SIGHUP  however not all options will actually have an effect.  This default name may be changed on the command
	      line (see: [option --options]).  You should backup this file.

       pubring.db
	      This file is a database in SQLite format, for public key material.  You should backup this file.

BUGS
       Please report bugs to .

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright © 2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc.	License GPLv3+: GNU GPL	 version  3  or	 later	

       This  is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.  There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by
       law.

       This manpage was generated by NIIBE Yutaka for the Debian distribution (but may be used by others), using man page of
       dirmngr.

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