SIGNSET-EDITOR(1)

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version 2.2.3 · 2 versions
, in fedora 43

💖 SIGNSET-EDITOR 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the signset-editor page from the User Contributed Perl Documentation section of the manual. it's a DNSSEC-Tools Signing Set GUI Editor and it's literally about to make your signing sets look cute. let's go 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

signset-editor — the DNSSEC-Tools Signing Set GUI Editor. that's it, that's the name, slay 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

signset-editor <keyrec-file>

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so signset-editor gives you the ability to manage signing sets super easily, in a GUI. no cap. a signing set contains zero or more names of key keyrecs, and these sets get used by other DNSSEC-Tools utilities for signing zones. the signing sets that live in the keyrec file you handed over get displayed in a brand new window, and from there you can create new signing sets and modify or delete the ones that already exist. obsessed 🫶

signset-editor has two display modes, bestie:

  • the Signing Set Display shows the names of all the set keyrecs in the given keyrec file.
  • the Keyrec Display shows the names of all the key keyrecs in the given keyrec file.

signset-editor starts out in Signing Set Display mode, but you can toggle between the two whenever you need. main character energy only ✨

there's also another toggle that controls the display of additional data. if the Extended Data toggle is turned on, then the Signing Set Display shows the names of the key keyrecs in each signing set, and the Keyrec Display shows the names of each signing set each key keyrec is in. if the Extended Data toggle is turned off, then the Signing Set Display only shows the names of the set keyrecs, and the Keyrec Display only shows the names of the key keyrecs. simple as that 💜

signset-editor has a small number of commands. all of them are available through the menus, and most have a keyboard accelerator. the commands are described in the next section, so keep scrolling 🏃‍♀️

management of signing sets may be handled using a normal text editor. however, signset-editor provides a nice GUI that only manipulates signing sets without the potential visual clutter of the rest of the keyrec entries. it's giving "we stay focused" 😌

💫 UNDOING MODIFICATIONS 💫

signset-editor has the ability to reverse modifications it has made to a keyrec file. this historical restoration will only work for modifications made during a particular execution of signset-editor — modifications made during a previous execution may not be undone. so don't close the window and expect the undo to still be there, okay? 😭

when undoing modifications, signset-editor does not necessarily restore name-ordering within a keyrec's signing_set field. however, the signing-set data are maintained. this means that an "undone" keyrec file may not be exactly the same, byte-for-byte, as the original file, but the proper meaning of the data is kept. so like, it ate but it didn't eat identical 🍓

after a "Save" operation, the data required for reversing modifications are deleted. this is not the case for the "Save As" operation. noted, fr fr ⭐

💅 OPTIONS 💅

signset-editor takes the following options:

  • -Version — displays the version information for signset-editor and the DNSSEC-Tools package.
  • -help — displays a usage message.

👑 COMMANDS 👑

signset-editor provides the following commands, organized by menus:

  • Open (File menu) — open a new keyrec file. if the specified file does not exist, the user will be prompted for the action to take. if the user chooses the "Continue" action, then signset-editor will continue editing the current keyrec file. if the "Quit" action is selected, then signset-editor will exit.
  • Save (File menu) — save the current keyrec file. the data for the "Undo Changes" command are purged, so this file will appear to be unmodified.

nothing will happen if no changes have been made.

  • Save As (File menu) — save the current keyrec file to a name selected by the user.
  • Quit (File menu) — exit signset-editor.
  • Undo Changes (Edit menu) — reverse modifications made to the signing sets and keyrecs. this is only for the in-memory version of the keyrec file.
  • New Signing Set (Commands menu) — create a new signing set. the user is given the option of adding key keyrecs to the new set.

this command is available from both viewing modes.

  • Delete Signing Set/Key (Commands menu) — delete the selected signing set or key.

this command is available from both viewing modes. if used from the Signing Set Display mode, then all the keys in the selected signing set will be removed from that set. if used from the Keyrec Display mode, then the selected key will no longer be part of any signing set.

  • Modify Signing Set/Key (Commands menu) — modify the selected signing set or key.

this command is available from both viewing modes. if used from the Signing Set Display mode, then the selected signing set may be modified by adding keys to that set or deleting them from that set. if used from the Keyrec Display mode, then the selected key may be added to or deleted from any of the defined signing sets.

  • View Signing Sets (Display menu) — the main window will display the keyrec file's signing sets. if Extended Data are to be displayed, then each key keyrec in the signing set will also be shown. if Extended data are not to be displayed, then only the signing set names will be shown.

this command is a toggle that switches between View Signing Sets mode and View Keyrecs mode.

  • View Keyrecs (Display menu) — the main window will display the names of the keyrec file's key keyrecs. if Extended Data are to be displayed, then the name of each signing set of the keyrec will also be shown. if Extended data are not to be shown, then only the keyrec names will be displayed.

this command is a toggle that switches between View Keyrecs mode and View Signing Sets mode.

  • Display Extended Data (Display menu) — additional data will be shown in the main window. for Signing Sets Display mode, the names of the signing set and their constituent key keyrecs will be displayed. for Keyrec Display mode, the names of the key keyrecs and the Signing Sets it is in will be displayed.

this command is a toggle that switches between Extended Data display and No Extended Data display.

  • Do Not Display Extended Data (Display menu) — no additional data will be shown in the main window. for Signing Sets Display mode, only the names of the Signing Sets will be displayed. for Keyrec Display mode, only the names of the keyrecs will be displayed.

this command is a toggle that switches between No Extended Data display and Extended Data display.

  • Help (Help menu) — display a help window.

⌨️ KEYBOARD ACCELERATORS ⌨️

below are the keyboard accelerators for the signset-editor commands:

Ctrl-D  Delete Signing Set

Ctrl-E  Display Extended Data / Do Not Display Extended Data

Ctrl-H  Help

Ctrl-M  Modify Signing Set

Ctrl-N  New Signing Set

Ctrl-O  Open

Ctrl-Q  Quit

Ctrl-S  Save

Ctrl-U  Undo Changes

Ctrl-V  View Signing Sets / View Keyrecs

Ctrl-W  Close Window (New Signing Set, Modify Signing Set, Help)

these accelerators are all lowercase letters. lowercase supremacy, periodt 💅

🌈 REQUIREMENTS 🌈

signset-editor is implemented in Perl/Tk, so both Perl and Perl/Tk must be installed on your system. no Perl/Tk, no vibes 😔

Copyright 2006-2014 SPARTA, Inc. All rights reserved. see the COPYING file included with the DNSSEC-Tools package for details.

💜 AUTHOR 💜

Wayne Morrison, tewok@tislabs.com

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

cleankrf(8), fixkrf(8), genkrf(8), krfcheck(8), lskrf(1), zonesigner(8)

Net::DNS::SEC::Tools::keyrec(3)

file-keyrec(5)

and that's the whole page, bestie 🫶 this was perl v5.42.0 documentation from 2025-07-23, which is genuinely iconic. go manage those signing sets, you've got this 💖✨

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