On 18 March 2012 at 06:25, Scott Raynaud wrote: | I am trying to add Michael Rutter's ppa to my | repository. I cannot do this from the command | line. I think I may be behind a firewall so copying | the key to a text file is my best option. When I | search for the key at | | http://keyserver.ubuntu.com:11371/ | | the search fails. Tried typing and | cutting and pasting E084DAB9 into | the search box without success. How | can I get the key?
By reading up on the underlying 'web of trust' initially built around PGP, and later GPG which is used here too. The idiomatic approach is to do a 'gpg --search ....' where you also need to specify a server: edd@max:~$ gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --search-key E084DAB9 gpg: searching for "E084DAB9" from hkp server pgp.mit.edu (1) Michael Rutter <[email protected]> 2048 bit RSA key E084DAB9, created: 2010-10-19 Keys 1-1 of 1 for "E084DAB9". Enter number(s), N)ext, or Q)uit > n Enter number(s), N)ext, or Q)uit > 1 gpg: requesting key E084DAB9 from hkp server pgp.mit.edu gpg: key E084DAB9: public key "Michael Rutter <[email protected]>" imported gpg: Total number processed: 1 gpg: imported: 1 (RSA: 1) edd@max:~$ Dirk -- "Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it is too dark to read." -- Groucho Marx _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
