---
name: "onak"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "onak"
version: "0.6.3-1+b2"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/onak"
---

# onak(1)

an OpenPGP compatible keyserver

## NAME

onak - an OpenPGP compatible keyserver

## SYNOPSIS

**onak** \[ **options** \] *command* \[ *parameters* \]

## DESCRIPTION

Perform various keyserver actions.

### Options

- **-b**

  Treat keys on stdin as binary rather than ASCII armoured.

- **-c** *FILE*

  Use *FILE* as the config file instead of the default.

- **-f**

  Display fingerprints when listing keys.

- **-u**

  Update keys - output changes on stdout.

- **-v**

  Verbose; increase loglevel.

### Commands

- **add**

  Read OpenPGP keys from stdin and add them to the keyserver database.

- **clean**

  Read OpenPGP keys from stdin, run the key cleaning routines against them and dump to stdout.

- **dumpconfig**

  Dump the running config in new .ini format to stdout, or the provided file. Intended to help with migration from old style configuration files - onak can read and parse the old style file and this command will output the equivalent new style configuration.

- **delete**

  Delete a given key from the keyserver.

- **dump**

  Dump all the keys from the keyserver.

- **get**

  Retrieves the requested key from the keyserver.

- **getphoto**

  Retrieves the first photoid on the requested key and dumps to stdout.

- **index**

  Search for a key and list it.

- **vindex**

  Search for a key and list it and its signatures.

## EXAMPLES

- **onak index noodles**

  List all keys in the keyserver that contain the word *noodles*.

- **onak clean \< dirty.key \> clean.key**

  Clean up one or more PGP keys. Currently this will just dedupe UIDs.

- **gpg --export \| onak -b add**

  Export all keys on your gnupg keyring and import them into the keyserver.

## FILES

```
/etc/onak.ini	default configuration file
```

## NOTES

This man page could probably do with some more details.

## AUTHOR

onak was written by Jonathan McDowell \<noodles@earth.li\>. It can be found at http://www.earth.li/projectpurple/progs/onak.html