gpg: encryption failed: public key not found

Jerome Baum jerome at jeromebaum.com
Tue Apr 12 20:54:09 CEST 2011


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Doug Barton <dougb at dougbarton.us> writes:

> On 4/12/2011 3:03 AM, Jerome Baum wrote:
>> "123098"<aoilean at hotmail.com>  writes:
>>
>>> I log in that computer as sysadmin, so I do all my work there as root.
>>
>> OT
>
> Right, so, next time show some restraint. :)

Right.

Since when was "a little OT" a problem? It's when things get out of hand
and the signal-to-noise ratio gets messed up, that there's a problem.

>> but you should be logging in as a normal user and using sudo
>> instead.
>
> There is more than one way to do it. Just because using sudo may be the 
> way that you are familiar with doesn't make it a one-size-fits-all 
> solution. (And no, don't bother posting any elegant treatises on why 
> sudo is the one true way. No point getting further off topic, and you 
> won't convince me anyway.)

I won't bother. "logging in as a normal user and using sudo" wasn't
meant in the "sudo is teh rulz" sense. It was meant to stand more
generally for "don't 'casually' run destructive commands (think rm) and
compile third-party software with more privileges than necessary" --
whether you do that by logging in as another user and use sudo, or
whether you implement this differently, doesn't really matter. What
matters is that you lower your privileges to the minimum required and
which can be practically applied.

If you don't want to keep OT, happy to take this off-list and have an
insightful discussion -- assuming it doesn't boil down to
mis-communication per above. :)

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