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cf-key(8) System Manager's Manual cf-key(8)

NAME

cf-key - cfengine's key generator
 

SYNOPSIS:


cf-key [options]
 

DESCRIPTION:

The cfengine's generator makes key pairs for remote authentication.
 
cfengine is a self-healing configuration and change management based system. You can think of cfengine as a very high level language, much higher level than Perl or shell. Asingle statement is called a promise, and compliance can result in many hundreds of filesbeing created, or the permissions of many hundreds offiles being set. The idea of cfengine is to create a one or more sets of configuration files which willclassify and describe the setup of every host in a network.

COMMAND LINE OPTIONS:

--help, -h
Print the help message
--debug, -d
Set debugging level 0,1,2,3
--verbose, -v
Output verbose information about the behaviour of the agent
--version, -V
Output the version of the software
--output-file, -f
Specify an alternative output file than the default (localhost)
--show-hosts, -s
Show lastseen hostnames and IP addresses
--remove-keys, -r
Remove keys for specified hostname/IP

AUTHOR

Mark Burgess and CFEngine AS

INFORMATION

Bug reports: http://bug.cfengine.com, .PP Community help: http://forum.cfengine.com
Community info: http://www.cfengine.com/pages/community
Support services: http://www.cfengine.com
This software is Copyright (C) 2008-2013 CFEngine AS.
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