From: Jameson Graef Rollins Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:48:16 +0000 (-0700) Subject: rewording but report. X-Git-Tag: monkeysphere_0.8-1~2 X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=59d3a09628ae2cbf90cd34265edb438728b40ea3;p=monkeysphere.git rewording but report. --- diff --git a/website/bugs/revoke-hostname-revoking-wrong-userid.mdwn b/website/bugs/revoke-hostname-revoking-wrong-userid.mdwn index 847b613..f785a9d 100644 --- a/website/bugs/revoke-hostname-revoking-wrong-userid.mdwn +++ b/website/bugs/revoke-hostname-revoking-wrong-userid.mdwn @@ -76,19 +76,19 @@ seems to be doing it pretty consistently for me at the moment: Run 'monkeysphere-server publish-key' to publish the revocation. servo:~ 0$ -Clearly this is unacceptable. Because of more inadequacies in gpg, -you can't specify a uid to revoke from the command line. The uid -revokation requires an edit-key script, which we have used before, but -you have to specify by "number" which uid to revoke. We currently try -to guess the number from the ordering of the output of list-key. This -however is not always accurate. I don't have a good solution for a -fix at the moment. Suggestions are most welcome. It may just require -some trial and error with edit-key to come up with something workable. +Clearly this is unacceptable. gpg does not let you can't specify a +uid to revoke from the command line. The uid revokation can only be +done through edit-key. We do edit-key scripting in other contexts, +but to revoke a user id you have to specify the uid by "number". We +currently try to guess the number from the ordering of the output of +list-key. However, this output does not appear to coincide with the +ordering in edit-key. I don't have a good solution or fix at the +moment. Suggestions are most welcome. It may just require some trial +and error with edit-key to come up with something workable. -This underlines the problem that gpg sucks ass as a tool for -manipulating gpg keyrings non-interactively. This is a big problem. -We need something better that we can use. I would gladly rewrite -everything if there was a better tool out there, but I don't know of -one. +This underlines the problem that gpg is currently not very well suited +for manipulating gpg keyrings non-interactively. It's possible that I +just haven't figured out how to do it yet, but it's not very clear if +it is possible. It would be nice to have some alternate tools to use. -- Big Jimmy.