From: Mark Hymers Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 09:36:30 +0000 (+0100) Subject: Add docs that the secret key only needs to be able to sign X-Git-Url: https://git.decadent.org.uk/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=62bb13893107fc5c499d6e94ec7549fcf996c9df;hp=a8665e557ea0b9eaec99badfc2c746303e0acfbe;p=dak.git Add docs that the secret key only needs to be able to sign Signed-off-by: Mark Hymers --- diff --git a/setup/README b/setup/README index c193e9a3..9d5103c1 100644 --- a/setup/README +++ b/setup/README @@ -67,7 +67,9 @@ WARNING: Please check these templates over and customise as necessary # cp templates/* /srv/dak/templates/ Set up a private signing key: don't set a passphrase as dak will not -pass one through to gpg. Guard this key carefully +pass one through to gpg. Guard this key carefully! +The key only needs to be able to sign, it doesn't need to be able +to encrypt. # gpg --no-default-keyring --secret-keyring /srv/dak/keyrings/s3kr1t/dot-gnupg/secring.gpg --keyring /srv/dak/keyrings/s3kr1t/dot-gnupg/pubring.gpg --gen-key Remember the signing key id for when creating the suite below. Here we'll pretend it is DDDDDDDD for convenience