[Monotone-devel] private key needed for sync?

[Zbynek Winkler]

Hello,

I was following the tutorial, created a database, importing some files, 
commiting work etc.

Now I want to setup an allways-on-server to exchange my work with 
others. I went to section "2.7 Network Service". I figured that I need 
to create an empty database and import pubkeys of all people I'd like to 
give access to. I've imported only mine pubkey so far. I've created the 
.monotone/monotonerc file with the three hooks as suggested. Then I 
tried to run the "serve" command but got the following error:

address@hidden:~/.monotone$ monotone --db=./marocode.db serve 
matforge.ms.mff.cuni.cz marocode
monotone: misuse: could not guess default signing key

The --debug command says:

monotone: executing serve command
monotone: db.fetch("SELECT id from 'private_keys'")
monotone: commands.cc:1998: usage constraint 'N(guess_default_key(key, 
app))' violated
monotone: misuse: could not guess default signing key

Why do I need a private key in the database? I do not intend to commit 
any work to this database. Is it used for anything else?

Zbynek

PS. I'd like to add monotone to our gforge setup but it seems it is not 
as straight forward :(. I'd like to have one database per project so 
that each project can easily manipulate it. It seems that in order to do 
that I'd have to start multiple instances of monotone serve using 
different ports. Is that true? I'd also have to use the --norc and 
--rcfile options to configure it, right? That seems kind of awkward :(

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