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diff --git a/doc/dirmngr.texi b/doc/dirmngr.texi index 6620a87a3..300068ed4 100644 --- a/doc/dirmngr.texi +++ b/doc/dirmngr.texi @@ -82,8 +82,9 @@ This is only used for testing. @item --daemon @opindex daemon Run in background daemon mode and listen for commands on a socket. -Note that this also changes the default home directory and enables the -internal certificate validation code. This mode is deprecated. +This is the way @command{dirmngr} is started on demand by the other +GnuPG components. To force starting @command{dirmngr} it is in +general best to use @code{gpgconf --launch dirmngr}. @item --supervised @opindex supervised @@ -141,21 +142,11 @@ per-user configuration file. The default configuration file is named @item --homedir @var{dir} @opindex options Set the name of the home directory to @var{dir}. This option is only -effective when used on the command line. The default depends on the -running mode: - -@table @asis - -@item With @code{--daemon} given on the commandline -the directory named @file{@value{SYSCONFDIR}} is used for configuration files -and @file{@value{LOCALCACHEDIR}} for cached CRLs. - -@item Without @code{--daemon} given on the commandline +effective when used on the command line. The default os the directory named @file{.gnupg} directly below the home directory of the user unless the environment variable @code{GNUPGHOME} has been set in which case its value will be used. All kind of data is stored below this directory. -@end table @item -v @@ -345,8 +336,7 @@ configured LDAP server if the connection using the "proxy" failed. @opindex ldapserverlist-file Read the list of LDAP servers to consult for CRLs and certificates from file instead of the default per-user ldap server list file. The default -value for @var{file} is @file{dirmngr_ldapservers.conf} or -@file{ldapservers.conf} when running in @option{--daemon} mode. +value for @var{file} is @file{dirmngr_ldapservers.conf}. This server list file contains one LDAP server per line in the format |