Update the known_hosts file. For each specified host, gpg will be
queried for a key associated with the host URI (see HOST
IDENTIFICATION in
-.BR monkeysphere(5)),
+.BR monkeysphere(7)),
optionally querying a keyserver.
If an acceptable key is found for the host (see KEY ACCEPTABILITY in
-.BR monkeysphere(5)),
+.BR monkeysphere(7)),
the key is added to the user's known_hosts file. If a key is found
but is unacceptable for the host, any matching keys are removed from
the user's known_hosts file. If no gpg key is found for the host,
each user ID in the user's authorized_user_ids file, gpg will be
queried for keys associated with that user ID, optionally querying a
keyserver. If an acceptable key is found (see KEY ACCEPTABILITY in
-.BR monkeysphere (5)),
+.BR monkeysphere (7)),
the key is added to the user's authorized_keys file.
If a key is found but is unacceptable for the user ID, any matching
keys are removed from the user's authorized_keys file. If no gpg key
the `-e' or `--expire' option (prompt otherwise). If no key ID is
specified, but only one key exists in the secret keyring, that key
will be used. `g' may be used in place of `gen-subkey'.
+.TP
+.B ssh-proxycommand
+an ssh proxy command that can be used
+to trigger a monkeysphere update of the ssh known_hosts file for a
+host that is being connected to with ssh. This works by updating the
+known_hosts file for the host first, before an attempted connection to
+the host is made. Once the known_hosts file has been updated, a TCP
+connection to the host is made by exec'ing netcat(1). Regular ssh
+communication is then done over this netcat TCP connection (see
+ProxyCommand in ssh_config(5) for more info).
+
+This command is meant to be run as the ssh "ProxyCommand". This can
+either be done by specifying the proxy command on the command line:
+
+.B ssh -o ProxyCommand="monkeysphere ssh-proxycommand %h %p" ...
+
+or by adding the following line to your ~/.ssh/config script:
+
+.B ProxyCommand monkeysphere ssh-proxycommand %h %p
+
+The script can easily be incorporated into other ProxyCommand scripts
+by calling it with the "--no-connect" option, i.e.:
+
+.B monkeysphere ssh-proxycommand --no-connect "$HOST" "$PORT"
+
+This will run everything except the final exec of netcat to make the
+TCP connection to the host. In this way this command can be added to
+another proxy command that does other stuff, and then makes the
+connection to the host itself.
+
+KEYSERVER CHECKING:
+The proxy command has a fairly nuanced policy for when keyservers are
+queried when processing a host. If the host userID is not found in
+either the user's keyring or in the known_hosts file, then the
+keyserver is queried for the host userID. If the host userID is found
+in the user's keyring, then the keyserver is not checked. This
+assumes that the keyring is kept up-to-date, in a cronjob or the like,
+so that revocations are properly handled. If the host userID is not
+found in the user's keyring, but the host is listed in the known_hosts
+file, then the keyserver is not checked. This last policy might
+change in the future, possibly by adding a deferred check, so that
+hosts that go from non-monkeysphere-enabled to monkeysphere-enabled
+will be properly checked.
+
+Setting the MONKEYSPHERE_CHECK_KEYSERVER
+variable (to `true' or `false') will override the keyserver-checking policy
+defined above.
+
.TP
.B subkey-to-ssh-agent [ssh-add arguments]
Push all authentication-capable subkeys in your GnuPG secret keyring
the monkeysphere.conf configuration file (defaults in parentheses):
.TP
MONKEYSPHERE_LOG_LEVEL
-Set the log level. Can be SILENT, ERROR, INFO, DEBUG, in increasing
-order of verbosity.
+Set the log level (INFO). Can be SILENT, ERROR, INFO, VERBOSE, DEBUG,
+in increasing order of verbosity.
.TP
MONKEYSPHERE_GNUPGHOME, GNUPGHOME
GnuPG home directory (~/.gnupg).
.SH FILES
.TP
-~/.config/monkeysphere/monkeysphere.conf
+~/.monkeysphere/monkeysphere.conf
User monkeysphere config file.
.TP
/etc/monkeysphere/monkeysphere.conf
System-wide monkeysphere config file.
.TP
-~/.config/monkeysphere/authorized_user_ids
+~/.monkeysphere/authorized_user_ids
OpenPGP user IDs associated with keys that will be checked for
addition to the authorized_keys file.
.SH AUTHOR
-Written by Jameson Rollins <jrollins@fifthhorseman.net>, Daniel
-Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>
+Written by:
+Jameson Rollins <jrollins@fifthhorseman.net>,
+Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>
.SH SEE ALSO
-.BR monkeysphere-ssh-proxycommand (1),
-.BR monkeysphere-server (8),
-.BR monkeysphere (5),
+.BR monkeysphere-host (8),
+.BR monkeysphere-authentication (8),
+.BR monkeysphere (7),
.BR ssh (1),
.BR ssh-add (1),
.BR gpg (1)
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