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| -rw-r--r-- | website/bugs/gpg_authentication_cmd-requires-single-input.mdwn | 15 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | website/news/mailing-list.mdwn | 2 |
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diff --git a/website/bugs/gpg_authentication_cmd-requires-single-input.mdwn b/website/bugs/gpg_authentication_cmd-requires-single-input.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d10a164 --- /dev/null +++ b/website/bugs/gpg_authentication_cmd-requires-single-input.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +In monkeysphere-server, the gpg\_authentication function, and +consequently the gpg\_authentication\_cmd, currently requires that all +arguments be put in a single quoted argument, eg: + + gpg_authentication "--list-key --with-colons --with-fingerprint 0x${keyID}!" + +This is obviously a little lame, but it seems to be necessary to do +the necessary argument passing from the function, to the su function +called as the monkeysphere user that controls the gpg authentication +keyring. + +I'm not sure how to fix it. I think the problem is mostly in how +arguments are passed to su. + +-- Big Jimmy. diff --git a/website/news/mailing-list.mdwn b/website/news/mailing-list.mdwn index 61d2a13..c0f7696 100644 --- a/website/news/mailing-list.mdwn +++ b/website/news/mailing-list.mdwn @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ we could setup a system to distribute that), and a mailing list that people other than us could join and browse the archives (we've got some interesting ideas here too)... -So, although our all-distributed model has cracked a bit, its mostly +So, although our all-distributed model has cracked a bit, it's mostly for want of tools to facilitate the process, and although we are eager to explore the mechanisms to make these things happen, we didn't want to keep the monkeysphere back while we did so. |