On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 01:59:52PM +0200, Andreas Rönnquist wrote: > Hi! > > I have managed to setup a personal repository for backports from > unstable to stable only for personal usage. Everything works just > fine, with one small exception: > > After I dput a package I must login to the repository server, and run > a shell script containing the reprepro command, which I cannot > automate, since it requests entry of a password for a gpg key. > > Does anyone have some simple instructions to setup reprepro so I don't > have to enter this password by hand - I understand that I can use some > kind of gpg certificate to get around this, but I haven't managed to set > it up properly. > > I want to do the reprepro command in a crontab so that eventual > uploaded packages get processed automatically every X minutes, but then > it (of course) cannot require someone to fill in a gpg password. > Have you looked at the keychain package? It allows you to cache SSH and GPG keys. I have used it to automate tasks that require both. Essentially, you will need to log in once after the system boots and load the key(s) you want to use for automation. Your scripts will need to source a shell script snippet with environment variables that let it connect to the running agent(s) and they can just operate like normal. The agent(s) handle all of the interactions with ssh and/or gpg regarding the unlocking of keys and such.
Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez
