From 8fb482252436b3b4b0b33663d95d1d17188ad1d9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Kahn Gillmor Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2016 18:30:59 -0400 Subject: dirmngr: Use a default keyserver if none is explicitly set * configure.ac: Define DIRMNGR_DEFAULT_KEYSERVER. * dirmngr/server.c (ensure_keyserver): Use it if no keyservers are set. * doc/dirmngr.texi: Document this behavior. -- A user who doesn't specify a keyserver, but asks gnupg to fetch a key currently just gets a simple error messages "No keyserver available". If the user is asking to contact a keyserver, we should have a reasonable default, and not require them to fiddle with settings when they might not know what settings to choose. This patch makes the default hkps://hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net. Signed-off-by: Daniel Kahn Gillmor --- configure.ac | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) (limited to 'configure.ac') diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac index bc3e2a80a..1b77a45e0 100644 --- a/configure.ac +++ b/configure.ac @@ -1764,6 +1764,9 @@ AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(SCDAEMON_SOCK_NAME, "S.scdaemon", [The name of the SCdaemon socket]) AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(DIRMNGR_SOCK_NAME, "S.dirmngr", [The name of the dirmngr socket]) +AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(DIRMNGR_DEFAULT_KEYSERVER, + "hkps://hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net", + [The default keyserver for dirmngr to use, if none is explicitly given]) AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(GPGEXT_GPG, "gpg", [The standard binary file suffix]) -- cgit v1.2.3