Fwd: [admin] logging in to perform maintenance for cl-muproc -- assistance needed

Drew Crampsie drewc at tech.coop
Sat Jan 5 03:10:59 UTC 2008


Gary King wrote:
> Hi Drew,
> 
> I tried to change Klaus's PGP key by copying out the old one and putting
> the attachment into the file pubkey.asc and then fixing the permissions.

The magic incantation is:

su - keymaster -c "gpg --import /home/$USERID/pubkey.asc"

to import the new key. I've done it for kharbo, but i'll leave it to you
to reset the password.

Cheers,

drewc


> The directory now looks like:



> 
> total 12
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 kharbo users   18 May 14  2006 cl-muproc ->
> /project/cl-muproc/
> drwxr-xr-x  2 kharbo users    8 May 14  2006 obsolete/
> -rw-r--r--  1 kharbo users 1418 May  4  2006 old-pubkey.asc
> -rw-r--r--  1 kharbo users 1765 Jan  4 12:23 pubkey.asc
> -rw-------  1 kharbo users   34 May  4  2006 trac-info.txt
> clnet:/home/kharbo#
> 
> But when I try to the reset-password.sh script, I get
> 
>> clnet:/home/kharbo# /custom/bin/reset-passwd.sh kharbo
>> Key id: 4B7EEC6C
>> gpg: 4B7EEC6C: skipped: public key not found
>> gpg: [stdin]: encryption failed: public key not found
>> Take the above encrypted message and send it to the user.
>> klaus at mu.dk
>> clnet:/home/kharbo#
> 
> So I'm guessing that the key id is recorded elsewhere; what should I do
> to resolve this?
> 
> thanks,
> 
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