If you've never set up the database before, we ship a simple script to
walk you through the process of fetching a keydump, importing it, and
enabling the service:

  su - debian-sks -c /usr/share/sks/sks-db-setup

If you want to connect your server to the global network of SKS
keyservers (you probably do if you're running this daemon publicly),
you should subscribe to the SKS mailing list <sks-devel@nongnu.org>
(https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/sks-devel/) and ask for
gossip partners.

Include the partners in /etc/sks/membership; running daemons will
notice automatically when that file changes.

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What does the script do?

It tries to fetch a full keydump from:

  https://pgp.key-server.io/sks-dump/

or from the keydump location you pass to it -- if this one's not
working for you, feel free to ask on the SKS mailing list.

It puts the dumps in /var/lib/sks/dump, owned by the debian-sks user,
and then (also as that user) runs /usr/lib/sks/sks_build.sh to import
them.

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But the daemons are still not running, even if the db is set up.
Running the daemons under systemd is recommended.  To enable them (so
that they will start at every boot):

  systemctl enable sks.service

To start them up:

  systemctl start sks.service

If you're using the System V init system, you'll need to enable the
daemons by editing /etc/default/sks, and start and stop them using the
invoke-rc.d or service commands.

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For recommended modes of public operation, please see:

  https://github.com/SKS-Keyserver/sks-keyserver/wiki/Peering

 -- Christoph Martin <martin@uni-mainz.de>, Wed, 16 Sep 2020 18:03:03 +0200
