overwriting trust levels

[Joachim Harloff-2]

Hi,

after a computer crash I moved to another computer and copied my user folder on to it. In some way I do not at all understand the trust level of the public keys changed on the way: None of the previously locally trusted keys is marked trusted anymore (so they do not appear in GPGDropThing etc dialogs). But when I use GPGKeys to sign one of them, the terminal window tells me that the key has already been signed (thats true, of course) and I cannot sign it again. But the trust level was: unknown (thats wrong. It was locally signed on the old computer to make it available). Strange. What can I do? Is it a good idea to throw away the key trustdb.gpg file?

Cheers, Joachim

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[Charly Avital]

Joachim Harloff wrote the following on 8/4/09 3:52 AM:

> Hi,
> after a computer crash I moved to another computer and copied my user
> folder on to it. In some way I do not at all understand the trust level
> of the public keys changed on the way: None of the previously locally
> trusted keys is marked trusted anymore (so they do not appear in
> GPGDropThing etc dialogs). But when I use GPGKeys to sign one of them,
> the terminal window tells me that the key has already been signed (thats
> true, of course) and I cannot sign it again. But the trust level was:
> unknown (thats wrong. It was locally signed on the old computer to make
> it available). Strange. What can I do? Is it a good idea to throw away
> the key trustdb.gpg file?
>
> Cheers, Joachim

Hi Joachim,

when transferring the GnuPG user folder ~/.gnupg, the trustdb.gpg file
gets somehow reset (I can't find the proper term).

I suggest you try the following.

Launch Terminal and type:

$ gpg --update-trustdb

you'll be presented with an interactive output where each key in your
keyring will be listed, asking you to set the trust.

It's important that for your own key or keys, you set trust and validity
to 'ultimate'.

Hope this helps.
Charly

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[Joachim Harloff-2]

>
> Hi Joachim,
>
> when transferring the GnuPG user folder ~/.gnupg, the trustdb.gpg file
> gets somehow reset (I can't find the proper term).
>
> I suggest you try the following.
>
> Launch Terminal and type:
>
> $ gpg --update-trustdb
>
> you'll be presented with an interactive output where each key in your
> keyring will be listed, asking you to set the trust.
>
> It's important that for your own key or keys, you set trust and validity
> to 'ultimate'.
>
> Hope this helps.
> Charly

Hi Charly,

Sorry, after typing gpg --update-trustdb I get about the message (in german):

gpg: no ultimately trusted keys found

Ok, there are no trusted keys in the key ring. Thats the problem.

Joachim

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[Joachim Harloff-2]

> > Hi Charly,
> >
> > Sorry, after typing gpg --update-trustdb I get about the message (in
> german):
> >
> > gpg: no ultimately trusted keys found
> >
> > Ok, there are no trusted keys in the key ring. Thats the problem.
> >
> > Joachim
> >
>
> Hi Joachim,
>
> $ gpg -K
>
> 1. this should output the list of your secret key or keys, and prove
> that your secring.gpg is there, and that it is accessible
>
> 2. Then, edit each of your keys (if more than one are listed) in order
> to reestablish the trust and validity of each key.
>
> $ gpg --edit-key [key ID]
>
> Command> trust   [reset the trust to ultimate]
>
> Charly
>
>

Hi Charly,

thank you very much. This worked fine.

Regards, Joachim

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