Hi, I have a scenario where a signature on a file should be checked. The file is signed by several keys and for this scenario it is ok if at least one is correct. In some cases it can happen that the system doing the check does not have access to all public keys that are used for signing.
When reading the gpg2 manpage on return codes: > The program returns 0 if everything was fine, 1 if at least a signature was > bad, and other error codes for fatal errors. I think it should return 1 in this case. But I get 2. Why? Here are the commands to reproduce: $ gpg2 --verify test.asc.gpg gpg: Signature made Fri Mar 3 17:44:57 2017 CET using RSA key ID DB2D0998DC19EEA3 gpg: Good signature from "Foo Foo" [ultimate] gpg: Signature made Fri Mar 3 17:45:01 2017 CET using RSA key ID 467C036CA9014F3F gpg: Good signature from "Bar Bar" [ultimate] $ gpg2 --delete-secret-keys 467C036CA9014F3F $ gpg2 --delete-keys 467C036CA9014F3F $ gpg2 --verify test.asc.gpg ; echo "RET: $?" gpg: Signature made Fri Mar 3 17:44:57 2017 CET using RSA key ID DB2D0998DC19EEA3 gpg: checking the trustdb gpg: marginals needed: 3 completes needed: 1 trust model: pgp gpg: depth: 0 valid: 1 signed: 0 trust: 0-, 0q, 0n, 0m, 0f, 1u gpg: Good signature from "Foo Foo" [ultimate] gpg: Signature made Fri Mar 3 17:45:01 2017 CET using RSA key ID 467C036CA9014F3F gpg: Can't check signature: No public key RET: 2 Kind regards, Gerd _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users