-.TH keylookup 1 "" Jun-2002 ""
+.TH keylookup 1 "" Aug-2005 ""
.\" manual page (c) 2000, 2001, 2002 Christian Kurz, Peter Palfrader
.\" $Id$
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.SH NAME
.LP
keylookup \- Fetch and Import GnuPG keys from keyservers.
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.SH SYNOPSIS
\fBkeylookup\fP [\fIoptions\fP] \fIsearch-string\fP
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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\fBkeylookup\fR is a wrapper around gpg --search, allowing you to search
and allows her to select the keys for importing into the GnuPG keyring.
For the search and actual import of keys GnuPG itself is called.
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.SH OPTIONS
.IP "\fB--keyserver\fP=\fIkeyserver\fP" 8
Specify the keyserver to use. If no keyserver is specified, it
will parse the GnuPG options file for a default keyserver to use.
If no keyserver can be found, \fBkeylookup\fP will abort.
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.IP "\fB--port\fP=\fIport\fP" 8
Use a port other than 11371.
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.IP "\fB--frontend\fP=\fIfrontend\fP" 8
\fBkeylookup\fP supports displaying the search results with 3
different frondends. Both \fBwhiptail\fP and \fBdialog\fP are
If available, \fB/usr/bin/dialog\fP is the default. If it is not
available but \fB/usr/bin/whiptail\fP is installed, then this is
used instead. If nothing else works, we'll fall back to \fBplain\fP.
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.IP "\fB--importall\fP" 8
Don't ask the user which keys to import, but instead import all
keys matching the \fIsearch-string\fP. If this is given no
frontend is needed.
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.IP "\fB--honor-http-proxy\fP" 8
Similar to GnuP \fBkeylookup\fP will only honor the \fBhttp_proxy\fP
environment variable if this option is given. If it is not given
but your GnuPG options file includes it, then \fBkeylookup\fP will
use it.
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.IP "\fB--help\fP" 8
Print a brief help message and exit succesfully.
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.SH ENVIRONMENT
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.IP "HOME" 10
Used to locate the default home directory.
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.IP "GNUPGHOME" 10
If set directory used instead of "~/.gnupg".
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.IP "http_proxy" 10
Only honored when the option --honor-http-proxy is set or honor-http-proxy is
set in GnuPG's config file.
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.SH EXAMPLES
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.IP "keylookup Christian Kurz"
will query your default keyserver for Christian's keys and offer you to
import them into your keyring with the dialog frontend (if available).
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.IP "keylookup --honor-http-proxy --frontend plain wk@gnupg"
will query the default keyserver again, now using the http_proxy if
the environment variable is defined and list wk@gnupg's (Werner Koch)'s key
on STDOUT.
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.IP "keylookup --keyserver pgp.mit.edu Peter Palfrader"
will now ask the keyserver pgp.mit.edu for my (Peter's) keys and
display them for import in dialog.
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.SH FILES
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.IP "~/.gnupg/options" 10
GnuPG's options file where \fBkeylookup\fP will take the keyserver
and honor-http-proxy values from if it exists.
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
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\fBgpg\fP(1)
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.SH BUGS
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.LP
Please report bugs using the Debian bug tracking system at
http://bugs.debian.org/.
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.SH AUTHORS
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.LP
Christian Kurz <shorty@debian.org>
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