signd(8)

✨ signd(8) ✨ — the system manager's manual, but make it cute

okay bestie, gather round, because today we're talking about signd from the System Manager's Manual 💖 she's a daemon, she's a vibe, she's the girl in the group chat who handles everyone's signing requests so nobody else has to. 🫶

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🌸 NAME 🌸

signd — execute or proxy sign requests ✨

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

signd [-f]

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so signd is a little daemon 💕 and her whole job is literally just listening. She listens for sign requests coming from sign, and then she does one of two things, main character behaviour honestly:

1. she calls gpg to do the actual signing, OR
2. she forwards the request to another signd server 🔁

that's it. that's the whole girl. 👑

the -f option makes signd fork on startup 🌱 (yes bestie, she goes and makes a whole copy of herself, iconic).

and signd uses the exact same configuration that sign uses, which is:

/etc/sign.conf

no separate config file, no extra homework, we love a shared setup 💖

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🔒 SECURITY 🔒

okay this part is important so put your phone down for a sec 🙈

unless the allow-unprivileged-ports option is set to true in /etc/sign.conf, signd only allows connections from:

• reserved ports, and
• the ip addresses, subnets expressed in CIDR notation, and hostnames listed in the "allow" field of the configuration 🌈

fr fr, if it's not in the "allow" field and it's not coming from a reserved port, she is not answering. boundary queen. 💅

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• sign(8)
• sign.conf(5)

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! 🎀 this one shipped as part of the System Manager's Manual and it's dated Apr 2007 💜 so yeah, she's been serving sign requests since before some of us were born, and she's still lowkey doing the most for your gpg setup. obsessed. periodt. ✨🫶👑

~ signd(8), out ~ 💖