--yes option working?

[Werner Koch]

Karl Fogel <kfogel at floss.onshore.com> writes:

>    Use this key anyway? 
> 
> I had thought that GPG would assume the answer to be "yes", since I
> passed the "--yes" flag, but it prompted me anyway.

Make sure that there is enough trust for this user.  The definition of
--yes is "assume yes on _most_ questions".

I can see that that is not an alternative for you, but simple pass a
--yes or (hypothetical) --strong-yes is not good.  What you should do
is:

  - if you get such an error message (I should add a status error
    message (to avoid NLS probs) for this (see --status-fd))
    - use a list option ( --list-key --with-colons ):
        "pub::768:16:E1139763E1D81275:1998-02-09:0:::we..."
            !--- you should find some trust information here ;-)
      to show the user that it is not secure to use this key
    OR
    - the status information (which I should add) can you give 
      a hint about the problem
    AND THEN
    - use a new option to override this check.  

There is no such option yet and I'm thinking whether to add some kind
of "--force-xxx" or a way to say that key xy is always trusted (this
may be better because I can record this in the TrustDB).

Please don't use such a --force option per default.  I'll add some
stuff soon.


Werner