On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 05:20:37PM +0200, Martin Gollowitzer wrote: > * Todd A. Jacobs <[email protected]> [110417 17:14, > mID <[email protected]>]: > > > I'm not sure how I'm supposed to get GPG to automatically retrieve > > keys for signatures when validating a key. I'm currently running: > > > > gpg --keyserver-options auto-key-retrieve -kvv FBB75451 > > > > which doesn't do what I expect. I get a whole bunch of [User ID not > > found] messages, when what I expected was that keys matching those > > signatures would be retrieved from the keyserver. > > > > What am I doing wrong here? > > The auto-key-retrieve options is for signatures made on content, not on > keys. AFAIK there is no option for automatically retrieving all keys > that signed a key.
...and you really, *really*, REALLY don't want to do this automatically and recursively :) (okay, so you fetch the keys that signed this key, now what about the signatures on them - do you fetch them too? and the sigs on those again? when do you stop?) G'luck, PEter -- Peter Pentchev [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint FDBA FD79 C26F 3C51 C95E DF9E ED18 B68D 1619 4553 Nostalgia ain't what it used to be.
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