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@c instguide.texi - Installation guide for GnuPG
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@c Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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@c This is part of the GnuPG manual.
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@c For copying conditions, see the file gnupg.texi.
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@chapter A short installation guide.
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Unfortunately the installation guide has not been finished in time.
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Instead of delaying the release of GnuPG 2.0 even further, I decided to
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release without that guide. The chapter on gpg-agent and gpgsm do
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include brief information on how to set up the whole thing. Please
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watch the GnuPG website for updates of the documentation. In the
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meantime you may search the GnuPG mailing list archives or ask on the
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gnupg-users mailing listsfor advise on how to solve problems or how to
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get that whole thing up and running.
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Such questions may also help to write a proper installation guide.
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XXX Tell how to setup the system, install certificates, how dirmngr relates
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** Explain how to setup a root CA key as trusted
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X.509 is based on a hierarchical key infrastructure. At the root of the
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tree a trusted anchor (root certificate) is required. There are usually
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no other means of verifying whether this root certificate is trustworthy
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than looking it up in a list. GnuPG uses a file (@file{trustlist.txt})
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to keep track of all root certificates it knows about. There are 3 ways
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to get certificates into this list:
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Use the list which comes with GnuPG. However this list only
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contains a few root certifciates. Most installations will need more.
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Let @command{gpgsm} ask you whether you want to insert a new root
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certificate. To enable this feature you need to set the option
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@option{allow-mark-trusted} into @file{gpg-agent.conf}. In general it
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is not a good idea to do it this way. Checking whether a root
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certificate is really trustworthy requires a decsions, which casual
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usuers are not up to. Thus, by default this option is not enabled.
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Manually maintain the list of trusted root certificates. For a multi
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user installation this can be done once for all users on a machine.
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Specific changes on a per-user base are also possible.
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XXX decribe how to maintain trustlist.txt and /etc/gnupg/trustlist.txt.
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** How to get the ssh support running
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XXX How to use the ssh support.
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@section Installation Overview