On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 03:19:49PM -0700, Nathaniel Smith wrote: > On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 04:53:20PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > Brian Campbell wrote: > > > You need to have a key in the server so the client can make > > > sure it's connecting to the right server. Otherwise, someone > > > could set up a bogus server so when you sync to it, all of > > > your private code is sent to the malicious server. > > > > How do you generate such a default signing key? > > The tutorial/manual says something like > > monotone --db=~/database.db genkey [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > But this generates a key for a specific person, somebody. > > How does one generate the default signing key for the server itself? > > You just pick something. The off.net server uses "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"; > you can use whatever you like. An email address that will get to the > server administrator might be good ("[EMAIL PROTECTED]"?). > Key names are just arbitrary strings (with some overly draconian rules > about what characters are allowed -- should fix this at some point), > and the use of email addresses is just a convention.
So if I generate any key in a database, that key becomes the default? And adding a key with monotone ... read <... doesn't make a default key? -- hendrik _______________________________________________ Monotone-devel mailing list Monotone-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/monotone-devel