Re: Signing gpg key

[Bob Hilliard <hilliard@debian.org>]

Enrique Robledo Arnuncio <era@ieeesb.etsit.upm.es> writes:

> 
> On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 01:59:37AM +0200, Enrique Robledo Arnuncio wrote:
> > 
> > gpg --secret-keyring .gnupg/secring.gpg --secret-keyring ~/.pgp/secring.pgp --keyring ~/.pgp/pubring.pgp --default-key hilliard@debian.org  --sign-key 390D6559 
> > 
> > That is, tell gpg about both secret keyrings. I think I had to do
> > that.
> >
> 
> I was wrong: This would allow you to find secret keys in both keyrings
> at the same time. What you want is to find public keys in both
> keyrings:
> 
> gpg  --load-extension idea --secret-keyring .gnupg/secring.gpg --secret-keyring .gnupg/secring.gpg --keyring ~/.gpg/secring.gpg --keyring ~/.pgp/pubring.pgp --default-key hilliard@debian.org  --sign-key 390D6559 

     I had to modify this as follows:

gpg --load-extension idea --secret-keyring .pgp/secring.pgp  --keyring ~/.pgp/pubring.pgp --default-key hilliard@debian.org  --keyring ~/.gnupg/pubring.gpg --sign-key 390D6559 

     It worked with these modifications.  According to the man page,
--keyring adds a keyring to the default list, so it should be
unnecessary to ever give a gpg key with the --[secret-]keyring option,
but it seemed to be required, otherwise it tried to sign my pgp key,
and returned "gpg: 390D655: user not found".
 
     Thanks a lot. This has solved my problem. 

Bob
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