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@@ -34,11 +34,6 @@ providing access to OCSP providers. Dirmngr is invoked internally by
@command{gpg}, @command{gpgsm}, or via the @command{gpg-connect-agent}
tool.
-For historical reasons it is also possible to start @command{dirmngr}
-in a system daemon mode which uses a different directory layout.
-However, this mode is deprecated and may eventually be removed.
-
-
@manpause
@noindent
@xref{Option Index},for an index to @command{DIRMNGR}'s commands and
@@ -468,9 +463,7 @@ Dirmngr makes use of several directories when running in daemon mode:
@table @file
@item ~/.gnupg
-@itemx /etc/gnupg
-The first is the standard home directory for all configuration files.
-In the deprecated system daemon mode the second directory is used instead.
+This is the standard home directory for all configuration files.
@item /etc/gnupg/trusted-certs
This directory should be filled with certificates of Root CAs you
@@ -501,20 +494,10 @@ These certificates are first tried before going
out to the net to look for them. These certificates must also be
@acronym{DER} encoded and suffixed with @file{.crt} or @file{.der}.
-@item @value{LOCALRUNDIR}
-This directory is only used in the deprecated system daemon mode. It
-keeps the socket file for accessing @command{dirmngr} services. The
-name of the socket file will be @file{S.dirmngr}. Make sure that this
-directory has the proper permissions to let @command{dirmngr} create
-the socket file and that eligible users may read and write to that
-socket.
-
@item ~/.gnupg/crls.d
-@itemx @value{LOCALCACHEDIR}/crls.d
-The first directory is used to store cached CRLs. The @file{crls.d}
+This directory is used to store cached CRLs. The @file{crls.d}
part will be created by dirmngr if it does not exists but you need to
-make sure that the upper directory exists. The second directory is
-used instead in the deprecated systems daemon mode.
+make sure that the upper directory exists.
@end table
@manpause
@@ -1040,10 +1023,6 @@ as a binary blob.
@c works. Note that mainly testing purposes this functionality may be
@c called directly using @cmd{dirmngr-client --validate @file{foo.crt}}.
@c
-@c For backward compatibility this function returns success if Dirmngr is
-@c not used as a system daemon. Thus not validating the certicates at
-@c all. FIXME: This is definitely not correct and should be fixed ASAP.
-@c
@c The function takes the target certificate and a mode argument as
@c parameters and returns an error code and optionally the closes
@c expiration time of all certificates in the chain.