NAME

dtkaadmin - DTKA user function administration interface

SYNOPSIS

dtkaadmin [ commands_filename ]

DESCRIPTION

dtkaadmin configures and manages the DTKA administration database for the local ION node, enabling the node to utilize the services of the Trusted Collective for Delay-Tolerant Key Administration.

It configures and manages that database in response to DTKA configuration commands found in commands_filename, if provided; if not, dtkaadmin prints a simple prompt (:) so that the user may type commands directly into standard input.

The format of commands for commands_filename can be queried from dtkaadmin by entering the command 'h' or '?' at the prompt. The commands are documented in dtkarc(5).

EXIT STATUS

"0"

Successful completion of DTKA configuration.

EXAMPLES

dtkaadmin

Enter interactive DTKA configuration command entry mode.
dtkaadmin host1.karc

Execute all configuration commands in host1.karc, then terminate immediately.

FILES

Status and diagnostic messages from dtkaadmin and from other software that utilizes the ION node are nominally written to a log file in the current working directory within which dtkaadmin was run. The log file is typically named ion.log.

ENVIRONMENT

No environment variables apply.

DIAGNOSTICS

Note: all ION administration utilities expect source file input to be lines of ASCII text that are NL-delimited. If you edit the dtkarc file on a Windows machine, be sure to use dos2unix to convert it to Unix text format before presenting it to dtkaadmin. Otherwise dtkaadmin will detect syntax errors and will not function satisfactorily.

The following diagnostics may be issued to the log file:

Can't open command file...

The commands_filename specified in the command line doesn't exist.

Various errors that don't cause dtkaadmin to fail but are noted in the log file may be caused by improperly formatted commands given at the prompt or in the commands_filename. Please see dtkarc(5) for details.

BUGS

Report bugs to <https://github.com/nasa-jpl/ION-DTN/issues>