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added two more possible failures:

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o You cut-and-pasted the sample INN control.ctl lines above
       and left the continuation lines in, instead of joining
       each group of three physical lines comprising one logical
       line to just one physical line.

     o You don't have your PGP configuration files and keyrings
       in the default path used by pgp and PGPPATH is not correctly
       set in your environment.  Either move your PGP directory
       to the default location or set the $ENV{'PGPPATH'} line in
       pgpverify.
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David Lawrence 1996-05-24 16:02:54 +00:00
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@ -190,7 +190,9 @@ describe the format of the file, and there is an even longer
addition to the normal authorization done by <I>control.ctl</I>, use
the action <B>verify-<I>pgp_userid</I></B> in the fourth field.
<P>For example, if you trust tale@uunet.uu.net to manage
groups in the "Big 8" hierarchies, you could have lines line these:
groups in the "Big 8" hierarchies, you could have lines like these
(but don't use the backslash continuation, which I have used here for
readability; keep it all on one line):
<P>
<PRE>
newgroup:tale@uunet.uu.net:\
@ -296,6 +298,10 @@ pgpverify?</H3>
<UL>
<LI>You don't have the latest version of <I>pgpverify</I>, which fixed
whatever bug is causing authentication of the message to fail.
<LI>You don't have your PGP configuration files and keyrings in the
default path used by <I>pgp</I> and <B>PGPPATH</B> is not correctly
set in your environment. Either move your PGP directory to the
default location or set the <B>$ENV{'PGPPATH'}</B> line in <I>pgpverify</I>.
<LI>You don't have the correct key for the user that signed it in your
key ring.
<LI>You are using a non-English version of <I>pgp</I>, set up with
@ -314,6 +320,9 @@ think.
copy of the article that includes an extraneous trailing newline, such
as might be inserted by saving the message from a mail handler or news
reader, that was not present in the original message.
<LI>You cut-and-pasted the sample INN <I>control.ctl</I> lines above
and left the continuation lines in, instead of joining each group of
three physical lines comprising one logical line to just one physical line.
</UL>
</OL>