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19 update-ca-certificates \- update /etc/ssl/certs and certificates.crt
21 .B update-ca-certificates
24 This manual page documents briefly the
25 .B update-ca-certificates
27 This manual page was written for the Debian distribution.
29 \fBupdate-ca-certificates\fP is a program that updates /etc/ssl/certs
30 directory to hold SSL certificates and generates certificates.crt that is
31 single-file version of CA certificates.
33 It reads /etc/ca-certificates.conf file. Each lines list pathname of
34 activated CA certificates under /usr/share/ca-certificates.
35 Lines that begin with "#" is comment line.
36 Lines that begin with "!" is deselect, deactivation of the CA certificates.
38 Before terminating, \fBupdate-ca-certificates\fP invokes
39 \fBrun-parts\fP on /etc/ca-certificates/update.d and calls each hook with
40 a list of certificates: those added are prefixed with a +, those removed are
43 A summary of options is included below.
46 Show summary of options.
49 Be verbose. Output \fBc_rehash\fP.
52 Fresh updates. Remove symlinks in /etc/ssl/certs directory.
55 .I /etc/ca-certificates.conf
58 .I /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
59 A single-file version of CA certificates. This hold
60 all CA certificates that you activated in /etc/ca-certificates.conf.
62 .I /usr/share/ca-certificates
63 Directory of CA certificates.
67 This manual page was written by Fumitoshi UKAI <ukai@debian.or.jp>,
68 for the Debian project (but may be used by others).