X-Git-Url: https://git.sthu.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=caff%2FREADME;h=8bd828beda7a7811d46b2a50e4479f274fc241e3;hb=121dc74316a9041364ea987a7627542993681b1a;hp=54bc1f8fc977948f88f0220cd3e9c9ddf47ab653;hpb=799e5b768912d2d3e04e8d7d93f9c70c44843f5a;p=pgp-tools.git diff --git a/caff/README b/caff/README index 54bc1f8..8bd828b 100644 --- a/caff/README +++ b/caff/README @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ - caff -- CA - fire and forget +caff -- CA - fire and forget caff is a script that helps you in keysigning. It takes a list of keyids on the command line, fetches them from a keyserver and calls @@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ GnuPG so that you can sign it. It then mails each key to all its email addresses - only including the one UID that we send to in each mail. - Features: * Easy to setup. * Attaches only the very UID that we send to in the mail. @@ -17,10 +16,8 @@ Features: * Creates proper PGP MIME messages. * Uses separate GNUPGHOME for all its operations. -Caveats: - * Requires a gpg patch for now, until 2 bugs are fixed: - http://bugs.debian.org/252917 gnupg: --with-colons and --edit delsigs - http://bugs.debian.org/254072 gpg should flush stdout before prompting in --edit +Special Requirements: + * GnuPG 1.3.92 or later. Discussion: @@ -35,5 +32,27 @@ Repsonse systems like CABot, without all the extra hassle of those systems. + +Dependencies: gnupg (>= 1.3.92), perl, libgnupg-interface-perl, libmime-perl, libmailtools-perl (>= 1.62), mailx + + +INSTALLATION NOTES + +After creating a ~/.caffrc from the template, caff almost works out of the box. + +It has a problem, though: your personal public key is not imported in the caff +working keyring. Do fix it, do this: + +Considering you have this: + + $CONFIG{'caffhome'} = $ENV{'HOME'}.'.caff'; + +Do: + + gpg --export | gpg --import --homedir ~/.caff/gnupghome + +This is a workaround for a bug which is already noted in the TODO list. + -- Peter +$Id$