Um... DOH!
It wants my real name. Period. Then it will ask for the comment. Then it
will ask for the email address. I thought I should enter it all at once!
Move along. Nothing to see here.
Alan
On Thursday 26 September 2002 08:38 pm, Mike Starke wrote:
> Less than and greater than signs.
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 08:10:45PM -0700, Alan Dayley wrote:
> All this talk about signing has spurred me to set it up on my email. I am
> having a problem however.
>
> I am using gpg (GnuPG) 1.0.6. As instructed by the KMail help file, I am
> running the command "gpg --gen-key" on the command line to create my keys.
> I have gone down through the list of questions until it asks for my "Real
> name" Here is what happened:
>
> <paste from console>
> You need a User-ID to identify your key; the software constructs the user
> id from Real Name, Comment and Email Address in this form:
> "Heinrich Heine (Der Dichter) <heinrichh@duesseldorf.de>"
>
> Real name: Alan Dayley <alandd@consultpros.com>
> Invalid character in name
> Real name: Alan Dayley <alandd@consultpros.com>
> Invalid character in name
> Real name: Alan Dayley (Alan) <alandd@consultpros.com>
> Invalid character in name
> Real name: "Alan Dayley <alandd@consultpros.com>"
> Invalid character in name
> Real name:
> </paste from console>
>
> So here I sit wondering what character is invalid in the 4 attempts above
> and how do I proceed from here. Any hints?
>
> Alan
>
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