8:21 p.m.
Here is what worked and did not today:
[karl@k5di ~]$ gpg -K
/home/karl/.gnupg/secring.gpg
-----------------------------
sec 1024D/FA8EC752 2007-12-17
uid Karl Larsen (For Fedora Doc work) <k5di(a)zianet.com>
ssb 1024g/9A70DE59 2007-12-17
[karl@k5di ~]$
[karl@k5di ~]$ gpg --fingerprint
/home/karl/.gnupg/pubring.gpg
-----------------------------
pub 1024D/FA8EC752 2007-12-17
Key fingerprint = 28AC 2D41 EF25 0417 7166 DD81 44BD ABFC FA8E C752
uid Karl Larsen (For Fedora Doc work) <k5di(a)zianet.com>
sub 1024g/9A70DE59 2007-12-17
I do have a /home/karl/.ssh/ directory and it has:
[karl@k5di .ssh]$ ls
id_dsa id_dsa.pub known_hosts
I think when I put the full address of id_dsa it works on the
register page. But FA8EC752 has never worked in the pgpID entry on the
register form. This may be because I'm not on the MIT list?
Here after I got the dam thing to work it sent FA8EC752 to MIT in
nothing flat! Yesterday it thought and thought and then provided an
error message. Of course I used the instructions exactly as written on
the web page.
The point I want to make is that sometimes you can't reach MIT and
that MUST be explained in the Instructions.
Registration:
Went to the web page to register and after correcting some problems
it went through. So I am a registered member of the Doc Group, whatever
that might mean, but for certain my gpg and ssh numbers were good enough
to register. For certain the registration job includes going to gpg.mit
and finding my stuff.
Contributor License Agreement:
I learned that I must fill out and send back a Contributor License
Agreement but when I tried to it I got an error. This is what happened:
[karl@k5di ~]$ gpg -a --sign fedora-icla-karl.txt
gpg: no default secret key: secret key not available
gpg: signing failed: secret key not available
[karl@k5di ~]$
I have no idea what a "default secret key" is and I guess I need one but
no-where in the Instructions does it say do this to make a default
secret key.
Summary:
There are serious errors in the Instructions. I have no way to send
the CLA to Fedora except by printing the thing and signing it in ink and
mail it to the address given.
I have no way to join this Doc and I have D/L "seahorse" and it
seems to work. It found both of my GPG and SSH passwords.
I will tear up my registration and delete both my keys and re-do it
with "seahorse" ONLY if you agree to remove all the manual Terminal
Instructions. I ask this because what I did does not work. The new GUI
software uses gnupg2 which must be required now.
Karl
--
Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
Linux User
#450462 http://counter.li.org.
PGP 28AC 2D41 EF25 0417 7166 DD81 44BD ABFC FA8E C752
9:39 p.m.
On Dec 19, 2007 6:21 AM, Karl Larsen <k5di(a)zianet.com> wrote:
Here is what worked and did not today:
[karl@k5di ~]$ gpg -K
/home/karl/.gnupg/secring.gpg
-----------------------------
sec 1024D/FA8EC752 2007-12-17
uid Karl Larsen (For Fedora Doc work) <k5di(a)zianet.com>
ssb 1024g/9A70DE59 2007-12-17
[karl@k5di ~]$
[karl@k5di ~]$ gpg --fingerprint
/home/karl/.gnupg/pubring.gpg
-----------------------------
pub 1024D/FA8EC752 2007-12-17
Key fingerprint = 28AC 2D41 EF25 0417 7166 DD81 44BD ABFC FA8E C752
uid Karl Larsen (For Fedora Doc work) <k5di(a)zianet.com>
sub 1024g/9A70DE59 2007-12-17
I do have a /home/karl/.ssh/ directory and it has:
[karl@k5di .ssh]$ ls
id_dsa id_dsa.pub known_hosts
I think when I put the full address of id_dsa it works on the
register page. But FA8EC752 has never worked in the pgpID entry on the
register form. This may be because I'm not on the MIT list?
Here after I got the dam thing to work it sent FA8EC752 to MIT in
nothing flat! Yesterday it thought and thought and then provided an
error message. Of course I used the instructions exactly as written on
the web page.
You mentioned this worked the other day. Once you have uploaded your
keys to MIT you don't have to do it again. Do you remember what the
error was? Perhaps it was because you already have your keys there...
The point I want to make is that sometimes you can't reach MIT and
that MUST be explained in the Instructions.
This may have been a home internet/router problem. Most home routers
sometimes/eventually allow connections on ports, even if you
specifically block said port :(
Registration:
Went to the web page to register and after correcting some problems
it went through. So I am a registered member of the Doc Group, whatever
that might mean, but for certain my gpg and ssh numbers were good enough
to register. For certain the registration job includes going to gpg.mit
and finding my stuff.
Contributor License Agreement:
I learned that I must fill out and send back a Contributor License
Agreement but when I tried to it I got an error. This is what happened:
[karl@k5di ~]$ gpg -a --sign fedora-icla-karl.txt
gpg: no default secret key: secret key not available
gpg: signing failed: secret key not available
[karl@k5di ~]$
I have no idea what a "default secret key" is and I guess I need one but
no-where in the Instructions does it say do this to make a default
secret key.
Summary:
There are serious errors in the Instructions. I have no way to send
the CLA to Fedora except by printing the thing and signing it in ink and
mail it to the address given.
I have no way to join this Doc and I have D/L "seahorse" and it
seems to work. It found both of my GPG and SSH passwords.
I will tear up my registration and delete both my keys and re-do it
with "seahorse" ONLY if you agree to remove all the manual Terminal
Instructions. I ask this because what I did does not work. The new GUI
software uses gnupg2 which must be required now.
I'm sorry to hear you had trouble with the terminal instructions. They
have worked fine for thousands before you. What specifically was wrong
with them, and where were your problems (I have already noted signing
and sending to mit - but that should work, and if it doesn't, then it
is most likely a problem with your machine.).
Hope that helps, probably doesn't :P
Cheers,
Murray.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
pub 1024D/81B3FDEB 2007-09-19 [expires: 2008-09-18]
Key fingerprint = 4ED9 9907 5BF0 4132 2B46 20D1 C0C6 362D 81B3 FDEB
Murray McAllister (Fedora Docs Project / mdious) <murray.mcallister(a)gmail.com>
sub 2048g/B04CFA0C 2007-09-19 [expires: 2008-09-18]
9:41 p.m.
>
> Here is what worked and did not today:
>
>
> [karl@k5di ~]$ gpg -K
> /home/karl/.gnupg/secring.gpg
> -----------------------------
> sec 1024D/FA8EC752 2007-12-17
> uid Karl Larsen (For Fedora Doc work) <k5di(a)zianet.com>
> ssb 1024g/9A70DE59 2007-12-17
>
> [karl@k5di ~]$
>
> [karl@k5di ~]$ gpg --fingerprint
> /home/karl/.gnupg/pubring.gpg
> -----------------------------
> pub 1024D/FA8EC752 2007-12-17
> Key fingerprint = 28AC 2D41 EF25 0417 7166 DD81 44BD ABFC FA8E C752
> uid Karl Larsen (For Fedora Doc work) <k5di(a)zianet.com>
> sub 1024g/9A70DE59 2007-12-17
>
> I do have a /home/karl/.ssh/ directory and it has:
>
> [karl@k5di .ssh]$ ls
> id_dsa id_dsa.pub known_hosts
>
>
> I think when I put the full address of id_dsa it works on the
> register page. But FA8EC752 has never worked in the pgpID entry on the
> register form. This may be because I'm not on the MIT list?
I vaguelly recall exporting my public key using something like:
gpg --export keyname or something like that. I do know that the
instructions provided for this work.
And then adding that key file to my account...
Cheers,
Murray.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
pub 1024D/81B3FDEB 2007-09-19 [expires: 2008-09-18]
Key fingerprint = 4ED9 9907 5BF0 4132 2B46 20D1 C0C6 362D 81B3 FDEB
Murray McAllister (Fedora Docs Project / mdious) <murray.mcallister(a)gmail.com>
sub 2048g/B04CFA0C 2007-09-19 [expires: 2008-09-18]
9:57 p.m.
Murray McAllister wrote:
On Dec 19, 2007 6:21 AM, Karl Larsen <k5di(a)zianet.com> wrote:
> Here is what worked and did not today:
>
>
> [karl@k5di ~]$ gpg -K
> /home/karl/.gnupg/secring.gpg
> -----------------------------
> sec 1024D/FA8EC752 2007-12-17
> uid Karl Larsen (For Fedora Doc work) <k5di(a)zianet.com>
> ssb 1024g/9A70DE59 2007-12-17
>
> [karl@k5di ~]$
>
> [karl@k5di ~]$ gpg --fingerprint
> /home/karl/.gnupg/pubring.gpg
> -----------------------------
> pub 1024D/FA8EC752 2007-12-17
> Key fingerprint = 28AC 2D41 EF25 0417 7166 DD81 44BD ABFC FA8E C752
> uid Karl Larsen (For Fedora Doc work) <k5di(a)zianet.com>
> sub 1024g/9A70DE59 2007-12-17
>
> I do have a /home/karl/.ssh/ directory and it has:
>
> [karl@k5di .ssh]$ ls
> id_dsa id_dsa.pub known_hosts
>
>
> I think when I put the full address of id_dsa it works on the
> register page. But FA8EC752 has never worked in the pgpID entry on the
> register form. This may be because I'm not on the MIT list?
>
> Here after I got the dam thing to work it sent FA8EC752 to MIT in
> nothing flat! Yesterday it thought and thought and then provided an
> error message. Of course I used the instructions exactly as written on
> the web page.
>
You mentioned this worked the other day. Once you have uploaded your
keys to MIT you don't have to do it again. Do you remember what the
error was? Perhaps it was because you already have your keys there...
No! Yesterday I could not get MIT to accept my offer of a public key.
> The point I want to make is that sometimes you can't reach MIT and
> that MUST be explained in the Instructions.
>
This may have been a home internet/router problem. Most home routers
sometimes/eventually allow connections on ports, even if you
specifically block said port :(
It was not a problem like that.
> Registration:
>
> Went to the web page to register and after correcting some problems
> it went through. So I am a registered member of the Doc Group, whatever
> that might mean, but for certain my gpg and ssh numbers were good enough
> to register. For certain the registration job includes going to gpg.mit
> and finding my stuff.
>
> Contributor License Agreement:
>
> I learned that I must fill out and send back a Contributor License
> Agreement but when I tried to it I got an error. This is what happened:
>
> [karl@k5di ~]$ gpg -a --sign fedora-icla-karl.txt
> gpg: no default secret key: secret key not available
> gpg: signing failed: secret key not available
> [karl@k5di ~]$
>
> I have no idea what a "default secret key" is and I guess I need one but
> no-where in the Instructions does it say do this to make a default
> secret key.
>
> Summary:
>
> There are serious errors in the Instructions. I have no way to send
> the CLA to Fedora except by printing the thing and signing it in ink and
> mail it to the address given.
>
> I have no way to join this Doc and I have D/L "seahorse" and it
> seems to work. It found both of my GPG and SSH passwords.
>
> I will tear up my registration and delete both my keys and re-do it
> with "seahorse" ONLY if you agree to remove all the manual Terminal
> Instructions. I ask this because what I did does not work. The new GUI
> software uses gnupg2 which must be required now.
>
I'm sorry to hear you had trouble with the terminal instructions. They
have worked fine for thousands before you. What specifically was wrong
with them, and where were your problems (I have already noted signing
and sending to mit - but that should work, and if it doesn't, then it
is most likely a problem with your machine.).
I do not think it was my machine. Could be but it was working for
everything else.
Hope that helps, probably doesn't :P
Nope. It is still a problem. Also in one place in the instructions it says to give the
registration form the finger, not the ID. That slowed me down too.
Karl
Cheers,
Murray.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
pub 1024D/81B3FDEB 2007-09-19 [expires: 2008-09-18]
Key fingerprint = 4ED9 9907 5BF0 4132 2B46 20D1 C0C6 362D 81B3 FDEB
Murray McAllister (Fedora Docs Project / mdious) <murray.mcallister(a)gmail.com>
sub 2048g/B04CFA0C 2007-09-19 [expires: 2008-09-18]
--
Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
Linux User
#450462 http://counter.li.org.
PGP 28AC 2D41 EF25 0417 7166 DD81 44BD ABFC FA8E C752
10:16 p.m.
Karl Larsen wrote:
Murray McAllister wrote:
> On Dec 19, 2007 6:21 AM, Karl Larsen <k5di(a)zianet.com> wrote:
>
>> Here is what worked and did not today:
>>
I have reached the point where I think I must do the whole darn
thing over after making sure there are no old keys on my computer.
Seahorse showed me I have 2 "sub keys". I was able to delete one but the
other could not be deleted.
So I will start over after I kill ALL KEYS on my computer.
Karl
>
--
Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
Linux User
#450462 http://counter.li.org.
PGP 28AC 2D41 EF25 0417 7166 DD81 44BD ABFC FA8E C752
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