Re: [Help-gnunet] help with database management

[Christian Grothoff]

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On Sunday 12 October 2003 06:49 pm, you wrote:
> On Sunday 12 October 2003 18:45, you wrote:
> > gnunet-insert can do that, too.  But the options get really complex.
> > What do you think is wrong with gnunet-gtk with respect to pseudonyms?
>
> The "bug" in gnunet-gtk with respect to pseudonyms may just be a
> misunderstanding on my part. I assume that pseudonyms are locally
> synonymous to namespaces in a non-hex format.
>
> I use gnunet-gtk to create pseudonym "MyPseudonym" with password
> "password". gnunet-pseudonym-list returns "MyPseudonym not decrypted"
> All the options under Advanced-Insert into Namespace are grayed out
> (nothin' happens when I click on 'em).
>
> Possibilities:
> 1. I'm not doing somthing that needs to be done so that gnunet-gtk will let
> me insert stuff into a namespace I've created. Help.

Try entering the password in the "password" line and press enter.

> As it happens, Advanced-Assemble Directory is suffering from the same
> problem. And I have absolutely no idea what Advanced-Reset File Identifiers
> is even supposed to do.

You can only assemble files into a directory that you indexed/inserted before.
GNUnet keeps a list of these files just for the purpose of building
directories.  In order to maintain your deniability (see FAQ), you need to
"reset" the file identifiers.  Hmm. Maybe I should have mentioned that
facility in the FAQ :-)

> The option to search a namespace will undoubtedly be useful, but I'm not
> sure where I'm supposed to get the namespace in HEX format from.

You should get it if you use gnunet-pseudonym-list with the "-p PASSWORD"
option.

> > You can, but gnunet-gtk definitely did not "mess up" the DB. It just
> > inserted (instead of indexed) the files.  If you index the files with
> > gnunet-insert, that process will also "repair" the DB as a side-effect.
>
> That makes life easier :-)

C
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