---
name: "litewitness"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "litetlog"
version: "0.4.3-3+b3"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/litewitness"
---

# litewitness(1)

transparency cosigning witness

## NAME

litewitness - transparency cosigning witness

## DESCRIPTION

### Usage of litewitness:

**-bastion** string

-

  address of the bastion(s) to reverse proxy through, comma separated, the first online one is selected

**-db** string

-

  path to sqlite database (default "litewitness.db")

**-key** string

-

  SSH fingerprint (with SHA256: prefix) of the witness key

**-listen** string

-

  address to listen for HTTP requests (default "localhost:7380")

**-name** string

-

  URL-like (e.g. example.com/foo) name of this witness

**-ssh-agent** string

-

  path to ssh-agent socket (default "litewitness.sock")

**-testcert**

-

  use rootCA.pem for connections to the bastion