Let me say I'm very happy with where I'm at. I can get work done and that's a good thing.

I did spend a little time with it this morning. I imported two keys thusly:

bshawadmin@NET3862:~/.cpan/CPAN$ sudo /bin/gpg --import /home/ad/bshaw
+admin/publickey01.key
gpg: key 450F89EC: "PAUSE Batch Signing Key 2022 <pause@pause.perl.org
+>" 8 new signatures
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:         new signatures: 8
gpg: no ultimately trusted keys found
bshawadmin@NET3862:~/.cpan/CPAN$ sudo /bin/gpg --import /home/ad/bshaw
+admin/publickey02.key
gpg: key A317C15D: "Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig.7os6VVqR@franz.a
+k.mind.de>" not changed
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:              unchanged: 1
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The keys are from https://pause.perl.org/pause/query?ACTION=pause_04about#pubkeybat as suggested by pryrt. I also did rm -rf /root/.cpan/CPAN/* to force new downloads of things (thank you Ken). Lastly I pointed my urllist to https://www.cpan.org/. (I previously had urllist pointed to an internal CPAN mirror on our network suggested to me by our networking / admin staff.)

Despite those changes, I'm still seeing the "key not certified with a trusted signature" problem:

cpan> get Data::Dumper
Running get for module 'Data::Dumper'
WARNING: This key is not certified with a trusted signature!
Primary key fingerprint: 2E66 557A B97C 19C7 91AF  8E20 328D A867 450F
+ 89EC
Signature for /root/.cpan/sources/authors/id/N/NW/NWCLARK/CHECKSUMS ok
Could not open /tmp/CHECKSUMS-3F6L/CHECKSUMS.64163: No such file or di
+rectory
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And I agree the "could not open" error is problematic as well.

I'm more than happy to switch check_sigs back to 0 and declare victory. If anyone has any other suggestions, I'm willing to tinker to see if I can get things working as we all know they could be.

Thanks again.

Cheers,

Brent