On Mon, 28 Sep 2020 08:23:54 -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez<robe...@debian.org> wrote:
>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. > keychain indeed looks exactly like what I need. Thank you! best regards -- Andreas Rönnquist mailingli...@gusnan.se andr...@ronnquist.net
