certmonger(8) System Manager's Manual certmonger(8)
NAME
certmonger
SYNOPSIS
certmonger [-s|-S] [-b TIMEOUT|-B] [-n|-f] [-d LEVEL] [-p FILE] [-F]
DESCRIPTION
The certmonger daemon monitors certificates for impending expiration, and can optionally refresh soon-to-be-expired certificates with the
help of a CA. If told to, it can drive the entire enrollment process from key generation through enrollment and refresh.
The daemon provides a control interface via the org.fedorahosted.certmonger service, with which client tools such as getcert(1) interact.
OPTIONS
-s Listen on the session bus rather than the system bus.
-S Listen on the system bus rather than the session bus. This is the default.
-b TIMEOUT
Behave as a bus-activated service: if there are no certificates to be monitored or obtained, and no requests received within TIMEOUT
seconds, exit.
-B Don't behave as a bus-activated service. This is the default.
-n Don't fork, and log messages to stderr rather than syslog.
-f Do fork, and log messages to syslog rather than stderr. This is the default.
-d LEVEL
Set debugging level. Higher values produce more debugging output. Implies -n.
-p FILE
Store the daemon's process ID in the named file.
-F Force NSS to be initialized in FIPS mode. The default behavior is to heed the setting stored in /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled.
FILES
The set of certificates being monitored or signed is tracked using files stored under /var/lib/certmonger/requests, or in a directory named
by the CERTMONGER_REQUESTS_DIR environment variable.
The set of known CAs is tracked using files stored under /var/lib/certmonger/cas, or in a directory named by the CERTMONGER_CAS_DIR envi-
ronment variable.
Temporary files will be stored in "/var/run/certmonger", or in the directory named by the CERTMONGER_TMPDIR environment variable if that
value was not given at compile time.
BUGS
Please file tickets for any that you find at https://fedorahosted.org/certmonger/
SEE ALSO
getcert(1) getcert-list(1) getcert-list-cas(1) getcert-request(1) getcert-start-tracking(1) getcert-stop-tracking(1) certmonger-certmaster-
submit(8) certmonger-ipa-submit(8) certmonger_selinux(8)
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