Re: Using GnuPG when switching users

2018-01-31 Thread Dan Horne
happy with, but it was only temporary as we don't require an interactive passphrase following key creation. On 1 February 2018 at 05:00, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > On Mon 2018-01-29 15:44:56 +1300, Dan Horne wrote: > > Has someone got a workaround? I need to be able to use "su&

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2018-01-28 Thread Dan Horne
Hi I'm using GnuPG 2.0.29 on Solaris. This specific version is being used because it's the only one we could get installed and working. I'm trying to generate keys from a user I have su'd to, but I get the following error: gpg-agent[23024]: command get_passphrase failed: Permission denied gpg:

Using GnuPG when switching users

2018-01-28 Thread Dan Horne
Hi I'm using GnuPG 2.0.29 on Solaris. This specific version is being used because it's the only one we could get installed and working. I'm trying to generate keys from a user I have su'd to, but I get the following error: gpg-agent[23024]: command get_passphrase failed: Permission denied gpg:

Re: Verify that the file is from who I expect it to be from

2017-10-29 Thread Dan Horne
Thanks. I exported my keys to ~/.gnupg/trustedkeys.gpg. I tried gpgv2 but got the following bash-3.2$ gpgv2 declaration.pgp gpgv: verify signatures failed: Unexpected error Adding --verbose did not affect this (Note this is a OpenCSW install) However, if I simply decrypt the file I get confirmat

Re: Verify that the file is from who I expect it to be from

2017-10-26 Thread Dan Horne
e data, usually by long key > ID IIRC. You have to make sure the key that signed the data is the key that > you expect, basically. If you need something more in-depth, there are many > more qualified individuals to assist on the list. > > On October 26, 2017 7:52:33 PM EDT, Dan Ho

Re: Verify that the file is from who I expect it to be from

2017-10-26 Thread Dan Horne
Thanks - I get the line saying "good signature" i n my message, but are you saying that I have to grep the output for the message and the email address of the encryptor? ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/lis

Verify that the file is from who I expect it to be from

2017-10-26 Thread Dan Horne
Hi all maybe I'm missing something, but how do I verify not only that an encrypted file is signed, but that it is signed by the party I expect to have signed it? In other words, if two parties can supply a file with the same name I want to make sure that when I think I'm dealing with a file from p

"Insecure memory" (yes setuid set) and "get_passphrase failed"

2017-09-04 Thread Dan Horne
Hi. I'm trying to get GnuPG working on Solaris 10 Our Unix administrator installed the CSW package. I'm trying to create my key: $ gpg2 --gen-key However at the time it comes to generate the secret key I get: You need a Passphrase to protect your secret key. Warning: using insecure memory! gp