PGP breakage with latest INN2 packages

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Mon Oct 7 19:40:32 UTC 2002


Marco d'Itri <md at Linux.IT> writes:

> [GNUPG:] GOODSIG 7536EAB5D3033C99 <moderator at dana.de>

> but PGP 2.x used to output:

> Good signature from user "de.admin.news.announce".

> pub  1024R/D3033C99 1996-05-18 <moderator at dana.de>
> sig         D3033C99 1996-05-18   <moderator at dana.de>
> uid                            de.admin.news.announce
> sig         00F0D5E9 1996-05-21   [User ID non trovato]
> sig         2246421D 1996-05-20   [User ID non trovato]
> sig         39F37F5D 1996-05-18   [User ID non trovato]
> sig         D3033C99 1996-05-18   <moderator at dana.de>

> As you can see, the key has an extra UID and PGP shows it instead of the
> one in the key.

Ah, right, that problem.

You can actually fix that problem by using GnuPG to delete the
<moderator at dana.de> UID from the key, IIRC.  I'll come up with something
to add to the documentation.

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