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authorWerner Koch <wk@gnupg.org>2019-11-07 17:41:19 +0100
committerWerner Koch <wk@gnupg.org>2019-11-07 17:41:19 +0100
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doc: Document gpgsm's --keyserver option.
-- Also fix a few related entries. Signed-off-by: Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org>
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@@ -347,6 +347,22 @@ Outputs additional information while running.
You can increase the verbosity by giving several
verbose commands to @command{gpgsm}, such as @samp{-vv}.
+
+@item --keyserver @var{string}
+@opindex keyserver
+Add an LDAP server to use for certificate and CRL lookup. This option
+can be given multiple times to configure more than one LDAP server.
+Note that the @command{dirmngr} can in addition be configured with a
+default list of LDAP servers to be used after those configured with
+this option. The syntax of @var{string} is:
+
+@sc{hostname:port:username:password:base_dn}
+
+Note that all parts of that string are expected to be UTF-8 encoded.
+This may lead to problems if the @sc{password} has originally been
+encoded as Latin-1; in such a case better configure this LDAP server
+using the global configuration of @command{dirmngr}.
+
@item --policy-file @var{filename}
@opindex policy-file
Change the default name of the policy file to @var{filename}. The