Re: Determining key permission bits

[Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com>]

On 12/19/13 22:13, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> Is there any easy way to tell which permission bits a key file has?

Not an easy way -- I should probably add this functionality though.  For now,
the best way is to use tarsnap-keymgmt to try to create {read, write, nuke}
key files and see if it succeeds or fails with a "The X key is required but
not in any input key files" error message.

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Colin Percival
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