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PGPDAEMON(8)           DragonFly System Manager's Manual          PGPDAEMON(8)


NAME

       PGPdaemon - daemon for automatic signing and decryption with PGP


SYNOPSIS

       pgpdaemon [ -mailwait ] [ -detach ] [ -nomail ] [ -no_filelocking ] [
       -pgppath <path> ]


DESCRIPTION

       The pgpdaemon programme is a daemon, run by the user, which can
       automatically sign or decrypt PGP messages. PGPdaemon is part of the
       PGPsendmail/Unix Suite.

       PGPdaemon will periodically read the users' incoming mail spool
       directory and will move the contents to another spool file, decrypting
       any messages that it can.


OPTIONS

       -mailwait
              This option will prevent PGPdaemon from processing any incoming
              mail until it has received a passphrase from sendpgppass. If
              this option is not specified, upon startup PGPdaemon will
              process any mail in the users' spoolfile and will not decrypt
              any messages. This can be annoying.

       -detach
              This option will detach PGPdaemon from the parent process.
              PGPdaemon will run until signalled with SIGTERM or SIGKILL. Note
              that PGPdaemon does not put itself in the background.

       -nomail
              This option disables processing of the incoming mail spool area
              by PGPdaemon.

       -no_filelocking
              This option disables file locking checks on the input and output
              spool files. PGPdaemon will only use lockfiles with this option.
              This option is useful with broken mail readers which lock their
              input spool (the output spool file for PGPdaemon) unecessarily.

       -pgppath <path>
              This option sets the PGPPATH environment variable for PGPdaemon
              and all its child processes. This is an alternative to setting
              the PGPPATH environment variable externally. The value of <path>
              must be a directory containing the path specification.


CONFIGURATION

       The configuration file  $PGPPATH/PGPdaemon.config  (which must exist)
       may contain several keywords, one per line. Each keyword may be
       followed by whitespace and extra information. The USERID keyword is
       required.  Below are the permitted keywords:

       USERID              the users' PGP key userID must follow
       MAILWAIT            same effect as the -mailwait argument
       IN_SPOOL_DIR        the input spool directory (default /usr/spool/mail)
                           must follow. A leading "~/" is permitted. If this
                           is not set, the contents of your MAIL environment
                           variable, if it exists, is used for the entire file
                           name. If neither exist, the default
                           /usr/spool/mail/$USER is used.
       OUT_SPOOL_FILE      the output spool file (default $HOME/decrypted-
                           mail) must follow. A leading "~/" is permitted.
       MAIL_CHECK_INTERVAL this must be followed by the desired number of
                           seconds between checks of the users' incoming spool
                           file


FILES

       /usr/spool/mail/<user>        the users' incoming mail spool
       $HOME/decrypted-mail          mail spool after decryption
       $PGPPATH/pubring.pgp          the users' public keyring file
       $PGPPATH/randseed.bin         the seed file for PGP
       $PGPPATH/PGPdaemon.config     the users' configuration file
       $PGPPATH/PGPdaemon.log.<hostname>
                                     log of activity/errors
       $PGPPATH/PGPsendmail.debug    enable debugging if exists
       /tmp/PGPsendmail.debug.<UID>  debugging output file
       pgpsendmail/doc/README.PGPdaemon
                                     distribution README (has more info.)


ENVIRONMENT

       The PGPPATH environment variable must be set to the directory
       containing your secret keyring. The MAIL environment variable may
       contain the name of your input mail spool file.


SEE ALSO

       sendmail(8), pgp(1), pgpsendmail(8), sendpgppass(1), pgppipe(1)


AUTHOR

       Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)


AVAILABILITY

       The PGPsendmail/Unix Suite is available for anonymous ftp from:

       ftp.atnf.csiro.au:pub/people/rgooch
       ftp.dhp.com:pub/crypto/pgp/PGPsendmail
       ftp.ox.ac.uk:pub/crypto/pgp/utils
       linux.nrao.edu:pub/src/pgp/PGPsendmail

PGPsendmail/Unix Suite            8 Dec 1994                      PGPDAEMON(8)

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