Newbie still here =)

Sean M McMahon ambassadorsean@juno.com
Fri Sep 27 18:35:01 2002


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Ok...I DO have SSH access to the server. And I have a little button in my
control panel that says "Manage Open PGP keys" which I can try to "Add a
new key" under, but I still haven't figured out what some of the fields
mean. To recap, these are the fields I have to fill in:

My name; my e-mail; comment/nickname; key/password; expire date; and key
size, which I can put at either 1024, 2048, or 4096. I tried to just make
a key like that, guessing my way through the pieces I didn't understand,
and came up with the following message:

gpg: Generating a standard key
gpg: /home/amazonde/.gpgtemp:7: missing argument

So now what? And once I've figured out how to make the key will the
public encryption key automatically encrypt any e-mails being sent from
the webserver? Thanks in advance!

> 
> > On 23-Sep-2002/17:56 -0400, Sean M McMahon <ambassadorsean@juno.com> 
> > wrote:
> > >I asked a question a week or so ago about using gpg to move a
> > >customer's credit card information over the web. I was gifted with 
> > the
> > >first actually well written explanation that I have seen throughout 
> > my
> > >quest to find answers to my problem, which has been carried out in 
> > over a
> > >dozen e-mails to my web host's tech support people who obviously 
> > have no
> > >idea what they're doing or what they're talking about.
> > [snip]
> > >Someone had asked a number of questions regarding my platform/web
> > >server etc., none of which I understood =) However, my control 
> > panel
> > >which I use to manage my web page had the following information on
> > >it:
> > [snip]
> > 
> > Looks like a pretty standard Linux setup. If you have telnet or 
> > (better)
> > SSH access to the server then we can help you figure out how to get 
> > this
> > working. If the only access you have is through an ISP-specific 
> > interface
> > (ie; the "control panel" you mentioned), then the ISP will have to 
> > help
> > you.
> > 
> > Do you have SSH or telnet access to the server?
> > 
> > Tony
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