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Create a GPG key with name and email
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| #!/bin/bash | |
| set -e | |
| set -x | |
| email=$1 | |
| name=$2 | |
| usage() { | |
| echo "Usage: $0 <email> <name>" | |
| } | |
| if [ -z "${email}" ]; then | |
| echo "Error: Email address is required." | |
| usage | |
| exit 1 | |
| fi | |
| if [ -z "${name}" ]; then | |
| echo "Error: Full name is required." | |
| usage | |
| exit 1 | |
| fi | |
| tmpcfg=$(mktemp) | |
| cat <<EOF > $tmpcfg | |
| Key-Type: 1 | |
| Key-Length: 4096 | |
| Name-Real: ${name} | |
| Name-Email: ${email} | |
| Expire-Date: 0 | |
| %no-protection | |
| %commit | |
| %echo Done | |
| EOF | |
| key_id=$( | |
| gpg --batch --full-generate-key --status-fd 1 "${tmpcfg}" \ | |
| | awk '/^\[GNUPG:\] KEY_CREATED/ { print $4 }' | |
| ) | |
| gpg --batch --armor --export $key_id > gpg-public-key.pem | |
| gpg --list-packets < gpg-public-key.pem | awk '$1=="keyid:"{print$2}' | head -n 1 > gpg-key-id | |
| rm -f "${tmpcfg}" | |
| printf "\nGenerated GPG key: " | |
| cat gpg-key-id |
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