Status of effort

[Karl Larsen]

Murray McAllister wrote:
> On Dec 19, 2007 6:21 AM, Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com> wrote:
>   
>> Here is what worked and did not today:
>>
>>
>> [karl at k5di ~]$ gpg -K
>> /home/karl/.gnupg/secring.gpg
>> -----------------------------
>> sec   1024D/FA8EC752 2007-12-17
>> uid                  Karl Larsen (For Fedora Doc work) <k5di at zianet.com>
>> ssb   1024g/9A70DE59 2007-12-17
>>
>> [karl at k5di ~]$
>>
>> [karl at 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 at zianet.com>
>> sub   1024g/9A70DE59 2007-12-17
>>
>>     I do have a /home/karl/.ssh/ directory and it has:
>>
>> [karl at 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 at 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 at 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 at gmail.com>
> sub   2048g/B04CFA0C 2007-09-19 [expires: 2008-09-18]
>
>   


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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
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   PGP 28AC 2D41 EF25 0417 7166  DD81 44BD ABFC FA8E C752