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diff --git a/website/bugs/revoke-hostname-revoking-wrong-userid.mdwn b/website/bugs/revoke-hostname-revoking-wrong-userid.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000..847b613 --- /dev/null +++ b/website/bugs/revoke-hostname-revoking-wrong-userid.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,94 @@ +[[meta title="revoke-hostname function revokes wrong hostname user ID"]] + +It appears that the monkeysphere-server revoke-hostname function will +occasionaly revoke the wrong hostname. I say occasionally, but it +seems to be doing it pretty consistently for me at the moment: + + servo:~ 0$ sudo monkeysphere-server n- servo.finestructure.net + The following host key user ID will be revoked: + ssh://servo.finestructure.net + Are you sure you would like to revoke this user ID? (y/N) y + gpg (GnuPG) 1.4.9; Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc. + This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. + There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. + + Secret key is available. + + pub 1024R/9EEAC276 created: 2008-07-10 expires: never usage: CA + trust: ultimate validity: ultimate + [ultimate] (1) ssh://localhost.localdomain + [ultimate] (2). ssh://servo.finestructure.net + [ revoked] (3) ssh://jamie.rollins + [ revoked] (4) asdfsdflkjsdf + [ revoked] (5) ssh://asdfsdlf.safsdf + [ revoked] (6) ssh://bar.baz + [ revoked] (7) ssh://foo.bar + [ revoked] (8) ssh:// + + + pub 1024R/9EEAC276 created: 2008-07-10 expires: never usage: CA + trust: ultimate validity: ultimate + [ultimate] (1)* ssh://localhost.localdomain + [ultimate] (2). ssh://servo.finestructure.net + [ revoked] (3) ssh://jamie.rollins + [ revoked] (4) asdfsdflkjsdf + [ revoked] (5) ssh://asdfsdlf.safsdf + [ revoked] (6) ssh://bar.baz + [ revoked] (7) ssh://foo.bar + [ revoked] (8) ssh:// + + Please select the reason for the revocation: + 0 = No reason specified + 4 = User ID is no longer valid + Q = Cancel + (Probably you want to select 4 here) + Enter an optional description; end it with an empty line: + Reason for revocation: User ID is no longer valid + Hostname removed by monkeysphere-server 2008-08-16T17:34:02 + + pub 1024R/9EEAC276 created: 2008-07-10 expires: never usage: CA + trust: ultimate validity: ultimate + [ revoked] (1) ssh://localhost.localdomain + [ultimate] (2). ssh://servo.finestructure.net + [ revoked] (3) ssh://jamie.rollins + [ revoked] (4) asdfsdflkjsdf + [ revoked] (5) ssh://asdfsdlf.safsdf + [ revoked] (6) ssh://bar.baz + [ revoked] (7) ssh://foo.bar + [ revoked] (8) ssh:// + + gpg: 3 marginal(s) needed, 1 complete(s) needed, PGP trust model + gpg: depth: 0 valid: 1 signed: 2 trust: 0-, 0q, 0n, 0m, 0f, 1u + gpg: depth: 1 valid: 2 signed: 0 trust: 0-, 0q, 0n, 0m, 2f, 0u + gpg: next trustdb check due at 2012-01-07 + sec 1024R/9EEAC276 2008-07-10 + Key fingerprint = C094 43E0 6882 8BE2 E9AD 516C 45CF 974D 9EEA C276 + uid ssh://servo.finestructure.net + uid [ revoked] ssh://localhost.localdomain + uid [ revoked] ssh://jamie.rollins + uid [ revoked] asdfsdflkjsdf + uid [ revoked] ssh://asdfsdlf.safsdf + uid [ revoked] ssh://bar.baz + uid [ revoked] ssh://foo.bar + uid [ revoked] ssh:// + + NOTE: User ID revoked, but revokation not published. + Run 'monkeysphere-server publish-key' to publish the revocation. + servo:~ 0$ + +Clearly this is unacceptable. Because of more inadequacies in gpg, +you can't specify a uid to revoke from the command line. The uid +revokation requires an edit-key script, which we have used before, but +you have to specify by "number" which uid to revoke. We currently try +to guess the number from the ordering of the output of list-key. This +however is not always accurate. I don't have a good solution for a +fix at the moment. Suggestions are most welcome. It may just require +some trial and error with edit-key to come up with something workable. + +This underlines the problem that gpg sucks ass as a tool for +manipulating gpg keyrings non-interactively. This is a big problem. +We need something better that we can use. I would gladly rewrite +everything if there was a better tool out there, but I don't know of +one. + +-- Big Jimmy. |