X-Git-Url: https://codewiz.org/gitweb?a=blobdiff_plain;f=website%2Fgetting-started-user.mdwn;h=66378dc12587dd2b8f3d67ca40b0604f6b0ba2d8;hb=7833a5e9da4c6e15eea7edfc38ae122360b37f1f;hp=5241667e12a1b8b2e70df88a72d32c414d7ee948;hpb=b5d43f9d49d0b1e60c3f3019a2d15728d526e881;p=monkeysphere.git diff --git a/website/getting-started-user.mdwn b/website/getting-started-user.mdwn index 5241667..66378dc 100644 --- a/website/getting-started-user.mdwn +++ b/website/getting-started-user.mdwn @@ -20,6 +20,16 @@ done with a simple cronjob. An example of crontab line to do this is: This would refresh your keychain every day at noon. +Install the monkeysphere software on your system +------------------------------------------------ + +If you haven't installed monkeysphere yet, you will need to [download +and install] (/download) before continuing. + +Make sure that you have the GnuTLS library version 2.6 or later +installed on your system. If you can't (or don't want to) upgrade to +GnuTLS 2.6 or later, there are patches for GnuTLS 2.4 available in +[the Monkeysphere git repo](/community). Keeping your `known_hosts` file in sync with your keyring ----------------------------------------------------------- @@ -87,18 +97,9 @@ Using your OpenPGP authentication key for SSH Once you have created an OpenPGP authentication subkey, you will need to feed it to your ssh agent. -Currently (2008-08-23), gnutls does not support this operation. In order -to take this step, you will need to upgrade to a patched version of -gnutls. You can easily upgrade a Debian system by adding the following -to `/etc/apt/sources.list.d/monkeysphere.list`: - - deb http://archive.monkeysphere.info/debian experimental gnutls - deb-src http://archive.monkeysphere.info/debian experimental gnutls - -Next, run `aptitude update; aptitude install libgnutls26`. - -With the patched gnutls installed, you can feed your authentication -subkey to your ssh agent by running: +The GnuTLS library supports this operation as of version 2.6, but +earlier versions do not. With a recent version of GnuTLS installed, +you can feed your authentication subkey to your ssh agent by running: $ monkeysphere subkey-to-ssh-agent