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.TH UPDATE-CA-CERTIFICATES 8 "20 April 2003"
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.SH NAME
update-ca-certificates \- update /etc/ssl/certs and certificates.crt
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B update-ca-certificates
.RI [ options ]
.SH DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the
.B update-ca-certificates
commands.
This manual page was written for the Debian distribution.
.PP
\fBupdate-ca-certificates\fP 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.
.PP
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. 
.SH OPTIONS
A summary of options is included below.
.TP
.B \-h, \-\-help
Show summary of options.
.TP
.B \-v, \-\-verbose
Be verbose. Output \fBc_rehash\fP.
.TP
.B \-f, \-\-fresh
Fresh updates.  Remove symlinks in /etc/ssl/certs directory.
.SH FILES
.TP
.I /etc/ca-certificates.conf
A configuration file.
.TP
.I /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.
.TP
.I /usr/share/ca-certificates
Directory of CA certificates.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR c_rehash (1),
.SH AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Fumitoshi UKAI <ukai@debian.or.jp>,
for the Debian project (but may be used by others).