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diff --git a/Documentation/config/gpg.txt b/Documentation/config/gpg.txt index 4f30c7d..0cb189a 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/gpg.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/gpg.txt @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ gpg.minTrustLevel:: * `fully` * `ultimate` -gpg.ssh.defaultKeyCommand: +gpg.ssh.defaultKeyCommand:: This command that will be run when user.signingkey is not set and a ssh signature is requested. On successful exit a valid ssh public key is expected in the first line of its output. To automatically use the first @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ gpg.ssh.allowedSignersFile:: A file containing ssh public keys which you are willing to trust. The file consists of one or more lines of principals followed by an ssh public key. - e.g.: user1@example.com,user2@example.com ssh-rsa AAAAX1... + e.g.: `user1@example.com,user2@example.com ssh-rsa AAAAX1...` See ssh-keygen(1) "ALLOWED SIGNERS" for details. The principal is only used to identify the key and is available when verifying a signature. @@ -64,6 +64,11 @@ A repository that only allows signed commits can store the file in the repository itself using a path relative to the top-level of the working tree. This way only committers with an already valid key can add or change keys in the keyring. + +Since OpensSSH 8.8 this file allows specifying a key lifetime using valid-after & +valid-before options. Git will mark signatures as valid if the signing key was +valid at the time of the signatures creation. This allows users to change a +signing key without invalidating all previously made signatures. ++ Using a SSH CA key with the cert-authority option (see ssh-keygen(1) "CERTIFICATES") is also valid. |