.TH keylookup 1 "" 2005-08-16 ""
.\" manual page (c) 2000, 2001, 2002 Christian Kurz, Peter Palfrader
.\" manual page (c) 2005 Christoph Berg
.\" $Id$
.SH NAME
.LP
keylookup \- Fetch and Import GnuPG keys from keyservers.
.SH SYNOPSIS
\fBkeylookup\fP [\fIoptions\fP] \fIsearch-string\fP
.SH DESCRIPTION
.LP
\fBkeylookup\fR is a perl script that queries a keyserver for keys 
matching the \fIsearch-string\fP. It shows a list to the user and offers 
her/him to select the keys for importing into her/his GnuPG keyring.
For the actual import of keys GnuPG itself is called.
.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.
.IP "\fB--port\fP=\fIport\fP" 8
Use a port other than 11371.
.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
interactive and allow the user to select the keys to import.
The third frontend \fBplain\fP is non\-interactive and just 
prints the keys to STDOUT. The user must then call GnuPG him/herself.
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.
.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.
.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.
.IP "\fB--help\fP" 8
Print a brief help message and exit succesfully.
.SH ENVIRONMENT
.IP "HOME" 10 
Used to locate the default home directory. 
.IP "GNUPGHOME" 10 
If set directory used instead of "~/.gnupg". 
.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.
.SH EXAMPLES
.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).
.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.
.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.
.SH FILES
.IP "~/.gnupg/options"  10
GnuPG's options file where \fBkeylookup\fP will take the keyserver
and honor-http-proxy values from if it exists.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
\fBgpg\fP(1)
.SH BUGS
.LP
Please report bugs using the Debian bug tracking system at
http://bugs.debian.org/.
.SH AUTHORS
.LP
Christian Kurz <shorty@debian.org>
.br
Peter Palfrader <peter@palfrader.org>