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dazzle
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Reputation: 1346

Issues while importing public pgp key though gpg

BACKGROUND: We had pgp software installed on old servers but on our new servers the infrastructure team installed gpg. So we have to do everything using gpg tool now. I am new to this.

So when we try to import a PGP public key block using the gpg import command we get the following error

>gpg --import /<filepath>/PGPKey.asc --user xyzzzd
 gpg: Warning: using insecure warning!
 gpg please see http://www.gnupg.org/faq.html for more inoformation
 gpg key 0DBC987k: "zyzzd <pgpadmin@xyprod.#####.com>" not changed
 gpg can't open '--user':No such file or directory
 gpg can't open 'xyzzzd':No such file or directory
 gpg Total number processed: 1
 gpg              unchanged: 1

Note we have placed the PGPKey.asc in the temp directory and the commands have been executed from that directory

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3485

Answers (1)

Jens Erat
Jens Erat

Reputation: 38732

There is no --user option in GnuPG, especially not for --import which expects all further arguments to be files to be imported; and I could neither find one for PGP.

The message says that the key 0DBC987k was already successfully imported into the GnuPG keyring, and no files could be found for --user nor xyzzzd.

Very likely you're fine just removing --user xyzzzd, otherwise you'll have to explain in detail what you're trying to achieve.

Upvotes: 1

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