1 .TH GNUNET-IDENTITY "1" "September 5, 2013" "GNUnet"
3 gnunet\-identity \- create, delete or list egos
9 gnunet\-identity is a tool for managing egos.
10 An ego is the persona that controls a namespace.
11 It is identical to a public\-private ECC key pair.
13 gnunet\-identity can be used to list all of the egos that were created
14 locally, to create new egos, and to delete existing egos (the
15 namespace will continue to exist, but it will be impossible to add
16 additional data to it).
18 Creating a new ego requires using the \-C option together with an
19 identifier (name) that is to be used for the new ego.
20 This identifier is only used locally for this peer and not shared with
23 \fB\-C NAME\fR, \fB\-\-create=NAME\fR
24 Creates a new ego with the given NAME.
26 \fB\-D NAME\fR, \fB\-\-delete=NAME\fR
27 Delete the ego with the given NAME.
29 \fB\-e NAME\fR, \fB\-\-ego=NAME\fR
30 Perform "set" operation with the respective ego.
31 Needs to be used together with option \-s.
33 \fB\-h\fR, \fB\-\-help\fR
36 \fB\-d\fR, \fB\-\-display\fR
37 display all of our egos
39 \fB\-m\fR, \fB\-\-monitor\fR
40 Run in monitor mode, listing all ouf our egos until CTRL-C is pressed.
41 Each ego is listed together with a unique pointer value; if egos are
42 renamed, that pointer value remains the same; if egos are deleted,
43 they are listed one more time with a name of "<null>".
45 \fB\-s SUBSYSTEM\fR, \fB\-\-set=SUBSYSTEM\fR
46 Perform "set" operation for the specified SUBSYSTEM with the
48 Needs to be used together with option \-e.
49 After this, the given SUBSYSTEM will use the ego with the specified
51 This will fail if NAME does not yet exist.
54 ~/.local/share/gnunet/identity/egos
55 Directory where the egos are stored (by default)
57 Report bugs by using Mantis <https://gnunet.org/bugs/> or by sending
58 electronic mail to <gnunet\-developers@gnu.org>
60 \fBgnunet\-gns\fP(1), \fBgnunet\-namestore\fP(1)
61 The full documentation for
63 is maintained as a Texinfo manual.
68 programs are properly installed at your site, the command
72 should give you access to the complete handbook,
74 .B info gnunet-c-tutorial
76 will give you access to a tutorial for developers.
78 Depending on your installation, this information is also
80 \fBgnunet\fP(7) and \fBgnunet-c-tutorial\fP(7).