Device Installation

There are three steps to getting a device installed:

1. Install binaries

As described in Installation Explained this can be done using the universal.sh install script, installing from a package manager (e.g. apt or dnf for Linux or brew for MacOS), or simply downloading the binary archive from GitHub releases and expanding it to your preferred destination.

2. Provide config

The NoPorts daemon sshnpd will look for config in /etc/noports/sshnpd.yaml. The universal.sh script will set this up for you in response to prompts, or it can be edited manually.

Config can also be provided in a different file location using the --config flag.

Or config options can be passed directly to sshnpd using command line flags

3. Provide device atKeys file

The NoPorts address used by a device (say @exampledevice_np) is held in a file that defaults to $HOME/.atsign/keys/@exampledevice_np.atKeys

The at_activate command is used to create the atKeys file.

Usually atKeys on a device are created by performing an enrollment operation at_activate enroll ... , but it's also possible to activate an atKey directly on a device using at_activate ...