.\" Hey, EMACS: -*- nroff -*- .\" First parameter, NAME, should be all caps .\" Second parameter, SECTION, should be 1-8, maybe w/ subsection .\" other parameters are allowed: see man(7), man(1) .TH UPDATE-CA-CERTIFICATES 8 "20 April 2003" .\" Please adjust this date whenever revising the manpage. .\" .\" Some roff macros, for reference: .\" .nh disable hyphenation .\" .hy enable hyphenation .\" .ad l left justify .\" .ad b justify to both left and right margins .\" .nf disable filling .\" .fi enable filling .\" .br insert line break .\" .sp insert n+1 empty lines .\" for manpage-specific macros, see man(7) .SH NAME update-ca-certificates \- update /etc/ssl/certs and ca-certificates.crt .SH SYNOPSIS .B update-ca-certificates .RI [ options ] .SH DESCRIPTION This manual page documents briefly the .B update-ca-certificates command. .PP \fBupdate-ca-certificates\fP is a program that updates the directory /etc/ssl/certs to hold SSL certificates and generates ca-certificates.crt, a concatenated single-file list of certificates. .PP It reads the file /etc/ca-certificates.conf. Each line gives a pathname of a CA certificate under /usr/share/ca-certificates that should be trusted. Lines that begin with "#" are comment lines and thus ignored. Lines that begin with "!" are deselected, causing the deactivation of the CA certificate in question. Certificates must have a .crt extension in order to be included by update-ca-certificates. .PP Furthermore all certificates with a .crt extension found below /usr/local/share/ca-certificates are also included as implicitly trusted. .PP Before terminating, \fBupdate-ca-certificates\fP invokes \fBrun-parts\fP on /etc/ca-certificates/update.d. .SH OPTIONS A summary of options is included below. .TP .B \-h, \-\-help Show summary of options. .TP .B \-v, \-\-verbose Be verbose. Output \fBc_rehash\fP. .TP .B \-f, \-\-fresh Fresh updates. Remove symlinks in /etc/ssl/certs directory. .SH FILES .TP .I /etc/ca-certificates.conf A configuration file. .TP .I /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt A single-file version of CA certificates. This holds all CA certificates that you activated in /etc/ca-certificates.conf. .TP .I /usr/share/ca-certificates Directory of CA certificates. .TP .I /usr/local/share/ca-certificates Directory of local CA certificates (with .crt extension). .SH SEE ALSO .BR c_rehash (1) .SH AUTHOR This manual page was written by Fumitoshi UKAI , for the Debian project (but may be used by others).