Bug 672727 - rpmsign with expired key claims "Pass phrase check failed" - very misleading
Summary: rpmsign with expired key claims "Pass phrase check failed" - very misleading
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: rpm
Version: 14
Hardware: All
OS: Unspecified
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low
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Assignee: Panu Matilainen
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-01-26 02:30 UTC by Paul Wouters
Modified: 2011-08-01 11:57 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2011-08-01 11:57:20 UTC
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Description Paul Wouters 2011-01-26 02:30:37 UTC 
Description of problem:
When a gpg private key is expired, and you try to sign using rpmsign, you get an error "Pass phrase check failed" which is really misleading. Took me a while to troubleshoot this and that it was in fact my key that was expired.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
rpm-4.8.1-5.fc14.x86_64

How reproducible:
create a new gpg key that expires immediately.
rpmsign a random rpm
Comment 1 Jindrich Novy 2011-08-01 11:57:20 UTC 
The error message is now modified to:

"Pass phrase check failed or gpg key expired"

in upstream.
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