Re: How to sign a remote repository, i.e. forward agent

2010-07-01 Thread Jameson Rollins
On Tue, 29 Jun 2010 21:40:37 +0200, Carsten Aulbert wrote: > My problem is relatively simple. We provide a (Debian) repository for our > colleagues as well as ourselves and would like to sign it (for the experts: > reprepro's export option). Of course one could either copy around the secret >

Re: How to sign a remote repository, i.e. forward agent

2010-07-01 Thread Joke de Buhr
Here is some kind of suggestion which might be helpful in your case. If I need to do signing or encrypting on remote hosts I use ssh to execute the signing command on a other remote machine in this case my local machine. It doesn't work in any case but in some cases like git tag signing, email

Re: How to sign a remote repository, i.e. forward agent

2010-06-30 Thread Denis A . Altoé Falqueto
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 2:33 PM, Carsten Aulbert wrote: > Hi Daniel > > On Wednesday 30 June 2010 19:06:58 Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: >> >> Does this workflow work for you?  if not, why not? > > I've thought about that, but these repos are a shared effort where the secret > key is also shared by f

Re: How to sign a remote repository, i.e. forward agent

2010-06-30 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 06/30/2010 01:33 PM, Carsten Aulbert wrote: > Thus maybe I should consider doing a 2-way sync: If you're worried about collisions/race conditions, you could reduce the race window to an arbitrarily small timeframe by having your sync scripts hold an advisory lockfile on the public-facing machin

Re: How to sign a remote repository, i.e. forward agent

2010-06-30 Thread Carsten Aulbert
Hi Daniel On Wednesday 30 June 2010 19:06:58 Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > > Does this workflow work for you? if not, why not? I've thought about that, but these repos are a shared effort where the secret key is also shared by four trusted people - thus there is a source for race conditions -

Re: How to sign a remote repository, i.e. forward agent

2010-06-30 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 06/29/2010 03:40 PM, Carsten Aulbert wrote: > My problem is relatively simple. We provide a (Debian) repository for our > colleagues as well as ourselves and would like to sign it [ ... ] > Anyone with an idea how to accomplish this? I maintain several signed apt repositories. I never for

Re: How to sign a remote repository, i.e. forward agent

2010-06-30 Thread Werner Koch
Carsten Aulbert writes: > Now the notorious question: Does anyone know how to forward the agent's > socket > to the remote machine? I've briefly tried socat (remote unix socket to tcp It does not help you. gpg currently uses the agent only for passphrase caching and not for secret key proces

How to sign a remote repository, i.e. forward agent

2010-06-30 Thread Carsten Aulbert
Hi all, this question has come up here in the past but I've never found *any* reply so far. My problem is relatively simple. We provide a (Debian) repository for our colleagues as well as ourselves and would like to sign it (for the experts: reprepro's export option). Of course one could eithe

How to sign a remote repository, i.e. forward agent

2010-06-30 Thread Carsten Aulbert
Hi all (please cc me on any reply), this question has come up here in the past but I've never found *any* reply so far. My problem is relatively simple. We provide a (Debian) repository for our colleagues as well as ourselves and would like to sign it (for the experts: reprepro's export option