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update-ca-certificates

NAME

update-ca-certificates - update /etc/ssl/certs and certificates.crt

SYNOPSIS

update-ca-certificates [options]

DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the update-ca-certificates commands. This manual page was written for the Debian distribution.

update-ca-certificates is a program that updates /etc/ssl/certs directory to hold SSL certificates and generates certificates.crt that is single-file version of CA certificates.

It reads /etc/ca-certificates.conf file. Each lines list pathname of activated CA certificates under /usr/share/ca-certificates. Lines that begin with "#" is comment line. Lines that begin with "!" is deselect, deactivation of the CA certificates.

Before terminating, update-ca-certificates invokes run-parts on /etc/ca-certificates/update.d and calls each hook with a list of certificates: those added are prefixed with a +, those removed are prefixed with a -.

OPTIONS

A summary of options is included below.

-h, --help

Show summary of options.

-v, --verbose

Be verbose. Output c_rehash.

-f, --fresh

Fresh updates. Remove symlinks in /etc/ssl/certs directory.

FILES

/etc/ca-certificates.conf

A configuration file.

/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt

A single-file version of CA certificates. This hold all CA certificates that you activated in /etc/ca-certificates.conf.

/usr/share/ca-certificates

Directory of CA certificates.

SEE ALSO

c_rehash(1),

AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Fumitoshi UKAI <ukai@debian.or.jp>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).