I quit

Karl Larsen k5di at zianet.com
Tue Dec 18 21:46:51 UTC 2007


Murray McAllister wrote:
> On Dec 19, 2007 12:53 AM, Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com> wrote:
>   
>> Karl Larsen wrote:
>>     
>>> Davidson Rodrigues Paulo wrote:
>>>       
>>>> 2007/12/18, Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com>:
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>>     The step of sending the pgp you made to MIT is not working as
>>>>> shown.
>>>>> It just errors out and you cannot register if that is not working. This
>>>>> is a MAJOR problem.
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>> Have you tried using Seahorse (graphical interface to manage PGP and
>>>> SSH keys)? The documentation covers this method since I updated it,
>>>> some weeks ago:
>>>>
>>>>   * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/UsingGpg/CreatingKeys
>>>>   * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/AccountSystem/CLAHowTo
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>    For some reason it worked this morning and it was the problem! I am
>>> now registered in the Doc Group. I think the rest will go faster.
>>>
>>> Karl
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>>     But then this problem showed up trying to sign my CLA:
>> [karl at k5di ~]$ gpg -a --sign fedora-icla-karl.txt
>> gpg: no default secret key: secret key not available
>> gpg: signing failed: secret key not available
>> [karl at k5di ~]$
>>
>> I have no idea how to fix this.
>>
>>
>> Karl
>>
>>
>>
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>>
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>
>
> Karl, thanks for your persistence and not leaving :)
>
> No idea about the MIT problem you had, I was lucky and could just
> copy+paste the examples and it worked first time.
>
> If gpg -K lists your keys, try running:
>
> gpg --sign fedora-icla-karl.txt
>
> What is the "-a" for? I tried before and it also works on mine, and
> asks for a passphrase...
>
> Cheers,
>
> Murray.
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> pub   1024D/81B3FDEB 2007-09-19 [expires: 2008-09-18]
> Key fingerprint = 4ED9 9907 5BF0 4132 2B46  20D1 C0C6 362D 81B3 FDEB
> Murray McAllister (Fedora Docs Project / mdious) <murray.mcallister at gmail.com>
> sub   2048g/B04CFA0C 2007-09-19 [expires: 2008-09-18]
>
>   
Hi Murray it still makes the same error message. I'm using F8 and wonder 
if that is the key?

[karl at k5di ~]$ gpg --sign fedora-icla-karl.txt
gpg: no default secret key: secret key not available
gpg: signing failed: secret key not available
[karl at k5di ~]$

[karl at k5di ~]$ gpg -K
/home/karl/.gnupg/secring.gpg
-----------------------------
sec   1024D/FA8EC752 2007-12-17
uid                  Karl Larsen (For Fedora Doc work) <k5di at zianet.com>
ssb   1024g/9A70DE59 2007-12-17

[karl at k5di ~]$

Karl


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