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| author |  Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name> | 2017-05-24 14:08:02 -0400 |
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| committer | Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name> | 2017-05-24 14:08:02 -0400 |
| commit | da79965be64f26c5038b415cf90d28b9926f3e54 (patch) | |
| tree | 04c4648d7f3e149f512331f0cfbc4fdf7ccb8e6b /doc/encryption | |
| parent | 8d2aea082e5a7981238bb6068ae5a2624e16028c (diff) | |
initremote, enableremote: Support gpg subkeys suffixed with an exclamation mark, which forces gpg to use a specific subkey.
This commit was sponsored by Peter Hogg on Patreon.
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/encryption/comment_10_6416ee43ffad1c306ef71247ae71a6c5._comment | 17 |
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diff --git a/doc/encryption/comment_10_6416ee43ffad1c306ef71247ae71a6c5._comment b/doc/encryption/comment_10_6416ee43ffad1c306ef71247ae71a6c5._comment new file mode 100644 index 000000000..ae2fb88a4 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/encryption/comment_10_6416ee43ffad1c306ef71247ae71a6c5._comment @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="joey" + subject="""comment 10""" + date="2017-05-24T17:47:46Z" + content=""" +@Yurt, git-annex will let you specify the gpg key id using anything that gpg +accepts, including a keyid with a appended '!'. However, when I tried that, +gpg seemed to still pick the master key instead of the subkey. That +happens because git-annex runs the input through `gpg --list-public-keys` +(in order to convert eg, email addresses to key ids) +which always lists the master key even when given a subkey. + +I made a small change to git-annex to special case this '!' suffix +behavior. Seems to work in my very limited testing. + +Please file bug reports about this kind of thing! +"""]] |