gpg trust from command line

Rahul R rahul.raviz at gmail.com
Thu Nov 26 14:23:51 CET 2009


:-) :-) I am really happy to hear that it worked great for you also.... :-)

On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 6:46 PM, Piotr Bratkowski <pioterbrat at o2.pl> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Thanks, you have just rescued me :). It is working really great.
>
> Regards,
> Piotr Bratkowski
>
>
>
> Rahul R pisze:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have done the trusting part automated on my linux box like the
>> following. Give a try anyways and let me know whether it was helpful or not.
>> I did many google search and could not find any method described for this.
>> The following method worked gr8 for me and is the one which I created myself
>> ;-).
>>
>> For trusting it as 3, use 4 and for 5, use 6 and so on...
>>
>>   1. gpg --import key.pk <http://key.pk> - Import your key
>>   2. echo $(gpg --list-keys --with-fingerprint --with-colons | tail
>>
>>      -2 | head -1 | tr -s ":" ":"| cut -d ":" -f2):4: >
>>      /tmp/somefile1 - take the finger print and copy to a temp file.
>>   3.  gpg --import-ownertrust < /tmp/somefile1 - import the finger
>>
>>      print to the trust data base. Done!!!!
>>
>> You can check the trusting part by typing the below command
>>
>>   1.  gpg --export-ownertrust
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 4:57 PM, Piotr Bratkowski <pioterbrat at o2.pl<mailto:
>> pioterbrat at o2.pl>> wrote:
>>
>>    Hello,
>>
>>    I need to invoke trust command but from linux shell. I was
>>    thinking that this will do:
>>    gpg --edit host_name trust 3
>>
>>    to set my trust marginal for host_name, but it didn't, it took me
>>    to the gpg command line.
>>
>>    I need this becouse I'm currently writing program that is using
>>    gpg. It's in C so making it to write to stdin of gpg would be a
>>    lot of fuss, as a command line I can simply use system function.
>>
>>    So my question is is it possible?? If yes how??
>>
>>    Regards,
>>    Piotr Bratkowski
>>
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>>
>> --
>> Thanks,
>> Regards,
>> Rahul R
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>>
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Thanks,
Regards,
Rahul R
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