UPDATE-CA-CERTIFICATES(8)			     UPDATE-CA-CERTIFICATES(8)



NAME
       update-ca-certificates - update /etc/ssl/certs and certificates.crt

SYNOPSIS
       update-ca-certificates [options]

DESCRIPTION
       This manual page documents briefly the update-ca-certificates commands.
       This manual page was written for the Debian distribution.

       update-ca-certificates is a program that updates /etc/ssl/certs	direc
       tory  to  hold  SSL certificates and generates certificates.crt that is
       single-file version of CA certificates.

       It reads /etc/ca-certificates.conf file. Each lines  list  pathname  of
       activated CA certificates under /usr/share/ca-certificates.  Lines that
       begin with "#" is comment line.	Lines that begin with "!" is deselect,
       deactivation of the CA certificates.

       Before	terminating,   update-ca-certificates	invokes  run-parts  on
       /etc/ca-certificates/update.d and calls each hook with a list  of  cer
       tificates:  those  added  are prefixed with a +, those removed are pre
       fixed with a -.

OPTIONS
       A summary of options is included below.

       -h, --help
	      Show summary of options.

       -v, --verbose
	      Be verbose. Output c_rehash.

       -f, --fresh
	      Fresh updates.  Remove symlinks in /etc/ssl/certs directory.

FILES
       /etc/ca-certificates.conf
	      A configuration file.

       /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
	      A single-file version of CA certificates.  This hold all CA cer
	      tificates that you activated in /etc/ca-certificates.conf.

       /usr/share/ca-certificates
	      Directory of CA certificates.

SEE ALSO
       c_rehash(1),

AUTHOR
       This manual page was written by Fumitoshi UKAI , for
       the Debian project (but may be used by others).



				 20 April 2003	     UPDATE-CA-CERTIFICATES(8)