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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   the   directory
       /etc/ssl/certs to hold SSL certificates and generates certificates.crt,
       a concatenated single-file list of certificates.

       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.

       Furthermore   all   certificates   found   below   /usr/local/share/ca-
       certificates are also included as implicitly trusted.

       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.  /usr/local/share/ca-certificates
              Directory of local 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).

                                 20 April 2003