Problem with PGP

[Russ Allbery]

Roxik <roxik at poczta.fm> writes:

>  I installed inn 2.4.0+20030912
>  It works great, but I have problems with PGP signed control message:

>  At last I see this:
>  Jan  1 06:21:00 news pgpverify[2680]: gpg exited status 2 processing
>  <checkgroups-pl-2004.Jan.01-062010 at usenet.pl>
>  Jan  1 06:21:00 news controlchan[10967]: skipping checkgroups
>  newgroup at usenet.pl(pgpverify failed) in
>  <checkgroups-pl-2004.Jan.01-062010 at usenet.pl>

The way to debug problems like this is to save the control message to a
file and then run:

    pgpverify -test < message

on the file.  You may need to apply the following patch to pgpverify first
to make the -test switch work right; it looks like the version in STABLE
has this problem:

--- pgpverify.in        2002/12/03 05:17:11     1.6
+++ pgpverify.in        2004/01/12 06:35:50
@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ use vars qw($gpgv $pgp $keyring $tmp $tm
             $syslog_facility $syslog_level $log_date $test $messageid);
 
 # Turn on test mode if the first argument is '-test'.
-if ($1 && $1 eq '-test') {
+if (@ARGV && $ARGV[0] eq '-test') {
   shift @ARGV;
   $test = 1;
 }

It will then print out the output of GnuPG, which can sometimes be useful.

>  p.s.1
>  This message:
>  ftp://ftp.isc.org/usenet/control/pl/pl.sci.historia.gz
>  give me a similar error message. I changed mode of this group manually, but
>  why "is pgp failed"?
>  I have'nt any other problems with normal groups

I assume that you mean the last message in that archive?  I just ran
pgpverify from INN 2.4.1 on the last message from that file and it
successfully verified the message, so I can't repeat this problem.

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