[SOLVED] Pacman keyring

Shelly · 2012-03-11 12:04:38

Hy girls and guys,

I want to sign the keys with a bash script. Here's the code:

keys=(6AC6A4C2 824B18E8 4C7EA887 CDFD6BB0 FFF979E7)
for value in ${keys[*]}
do
	pacman-key -r $value
	pacman-key --edit-key $value
	echo 'lsign'
	echo 'y'
	echo 'trust'
	echo '3'
	echo 'save'
	echo 'q'
done

.. but it stops at:

gpg>

Does anybody have a solution?

Last edited by Shelly (2012-03-11 12:34:19)

Allan · 2012-03-11 12:18:06

See http://allanmcrae.com/2011/12/pacman-pa … rch-linux/

Trilby · 2012-03-11 12:27:15

As a more general comment on bash scripting, `echo` prints its parameters to stdout, this never reaches the stdin of another running process (unless redirected). In your script pacman-key is waiting for input, and until it gets it those echo lines will never execute. Even if pacman-key was backgrounded, those echos would only go to the screen, not to pacman-key.

In general you can do something like this

cat <<EOF | process-that-requires-input
lsign
y
trust
3
save
q
EOF

I say in general as this should work with programs and processes that read from the standard input in 'normal' ways. I suspect, but cannot confirm, that pacman-key would fall into that category.

EDIT: there are a few different ways of redirecting blocks of 'text'. Each one has their caveats. The above is a rough example of one of them, and undoubtedly could have issues.

Last edited by Trilby (2012-03-11 12:29:34)

Shelly · 2012-03-11 12:33:28

That was fast. Thanks for the link and the explanation

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#1 2012-03-11 12:04:38

[SOLVED] Pacman keyring

#2 2012-03-11 12:18:06

Re: [SOLVED] Pacman keyring

#3 2012-03-11 12:27:15

Re: [SOLVED] Pacman keyring

#4 2012-03-11 12:33:28

Re: [SOLVED] Pacman keyring

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