GNUNET-IDENTITY(1)

NAME
gnunet-identity - create, delete or list egos

SYNOPSIS
gnunet-identity [options]

DESCRIPTION

gnunet-identity is a tool for managing egos. An ego is the persona that controls a namespace. It is identical to a public-private ECC key pair. gnunet-identity can be used to list all of the egos that were created locally, to create new egos, and to delete existing egos (the namespace will continue to exist, but it will be impossible to add additional data to it). Creating a new ego requires using the -C option together with an identifier (name) that is to be used for the new ego. This identifier is only used locally for this peer and not shared with other peers.

-C NAME, --create=NAME
    Creates a new ego with the given NAME.

-D NAME, --delete=NAME
    Delete the ego with the given NAME.

-e NAME, --ego=NAME
    Perform "set" operation with the respective ego. Needs to be used together with option -s.

-h, --help
    Print help page.

-d, --display
    display all ouf our egos

-m, --monitor
    run in monitor mode, listing all ouf our egos until CTRL-C is pressed. Each ego is listed together with a unique pointer value; if egos are renamed, that pointer value remains the same; if egos are deleted, they are listed one more time with a name of "<null>".

-s SUBSYSTEM, --set=SUBSYSTEM
    Perform "set" operation for the specified SUBSYSTEM with the respective ego. Needs to be used together with option -e. After this, the given SUBSYSTEM will use the ego with the specified NAME. This will fail if NAME does not yet exist.

FILES

~/.gnunet/egos/
    Directory where the egos are stored (by default)

REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs by using Mantis <https://gnunet.org/bugs/> or by sending electronic mail to <gnunet-developers@gnu.org>

SEE ALSO
gnunet-gns(1), gnunet-namestore(1)