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NAME

       "razor-admin" - Razor Registering Agent

SYNOPSIS

           razor-admin [options]  [ -register | -create | -discover ]

DESCRIPTION

       "razor-admin" is the Razor Agent that performs administrative functions, most notably registering
       (-register)

USAGE

       "razor-admin" must have one of the following arguments:

       "-register"
           Registers a new identity, used for authenticating with Razor Nomination Servers.  Identities are a
           user + password pair stored in "<razorhome>/identity-<user>".  The first time "razor-admin -register"
           exits successfully, a symlink "identity" is created to point to the active "identity-<user>" file.
           After that, new identities can be created, but in order to use them the symlink "identity" must be
           changed to point to them. In general, it should be called once from the command line. Exits 0 for
           success, exits 1 on failure with a human-readable output message.

           Both razor-report(1) and razor-revoke(1) require user authentication to work, razor-check(1) does
           not. This allows the Razor Nomination Server to keep track of how many messages a user reports and
           revokes. The more messages a user correctly reports and/or correctly revokes, the more trust the user
           earns. Likewise, when messages are incorrectly reported or revoked, the trust goes down for that
           user. Highly trusted users will have the most affect on the Razor database.

       "-discover"
           Force discovery.  This will create "server.*.lst" files in <razorhome>.

       "-create"
           Explicitly creates "razor-agent.conf" file in <razorhome>, as well as <razorhome> if it does not
           exist.  Normally loads "/etc/razor/razor-agent.conf" if it exists, using defaults for anything not
           found.  Does not attempt to register with server, but will do discovery, see "-discover".

OPTIONS

       "razor-admin" takes following optional arguments:

       "-h"
           Print a usage message and exit.

       "-v"
           Print the version number and exit.

       "-d | --verbose"
           Print debugging information.

       "-debuglevel=n | -dl=n"
           Set debug level to 'n'.  Default is 3 without "-d" option, 9 with.

       "-s"
           Simulate a check. Do everything except talk to the server.

       "-conf=filename"
           Specifies an alternate configuration file.  If not specified, it is computed, see razor-agents(1)
           manpage for details.  See razor-agent.conf(5) manpage for various configuration options.  The default
           is "<razorhome>/razor-agent.conf".

       "-home=directory"
           Specify razorhome directory.  This is where the configuration file, logfiles, identities, and server
           files live.  If not specified, it is computed, see razor-agents(1) manpage for details.

       "-logfile=file"
           Specify file to log to instead of what is in the configuration file.  The default is
           "<razorhome>/razor-agent.log".

       "-ident=filename"
           Specify an identify file to use for storing a newly registered identity.  If not specified,
           "<razorhome>/identity-<user>" is used.

       "-rs=razor.server.com"
           Use this Razor Nomination Server instead of reading "servers.nomination.lst".

       "-user=user@domain.com"
           Request to be known as this username. Must be less than 64 chars and may contain A-Z, a-z, 0-9, as
           well printable chars [ex: - _ @ . + / ]. If not specified, a username will be assigned. Razor users
           are encouraged to use their email addresses as their username.

       "-pass=password"
           Request this password.  Valid chars are the same as for -user.  If not specified, it will be
           assigned.

       "-l"
           The identity created during this "razor-admin" becomes the default.  Normally, the first identity
           file created by "razor-admin" is the default one used.

EXAMPLES

       razor-admin -d -create
           With no global razorhome defined (default) in /etc/razor/razor-agents.conf, creates .razor directory
           in user's home directory.

           With global razorhome defined in /etc/razor/razor-agents.conf, will try to use that one, will fail if
           it does not have correct permissions.

       razor-admin -register
           Registers a new identity, storing it in <lt>razorhome<gt>.  User and pass will be server generated.
           An identity is required for razor-report(1) and razor-revoke(1).

       razor-admin -register -user me@a.com
           Attempts to register a new identity using the user name 'me\@a.com'.  Will fail if user is already
           taken.

       razor-admin -d -create -home=/home/me/.razor
           Creates .razor directory in user's home directory, which will then be the default home unless
           specified from cmd-line.  Sends debugging information to stdout, and does not talk to any Razor
           Servers.

       razor-admin -d -create -home=/etc/razor
           Creates global razorhome, /etc/razor.  This is the magic directory that will be consulted if no
           razorhome is specified on the cmd-line or found in user's home directory.

AUTHORS

       Vipul Ved Prakash <mail@vipul.net>, and Chad Norwood <chad@samo.org>

SEE ALSO

       razor-agents(1), razor-agent.conf(5), razor-check(1), razor-report(1), razor-revoke(1),
       razor-whitelist(5)

LICENSE

       This is free software, distributed under the Artistic License 2.0.