Windoze Registry

[Werner Koch]

On Tue, 7 Aug 2001 06:23:53 -0500, Daryl Krauter said:

> 	1) Might it be possible in an upcoming release to reference
> the HomeDir from the Registry Key "\\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE"?
> Obviously, this makes the same keyring available to all users with
> just one registry setting.  Perhaps a group's "common" keys go in
> that keyring, and the user's specific keys go in their keyring.

Although it is unwise to use encryption on a multi user machine, it is
often used and therefore we can't assign a keyring to a machine.

> 	2) Should I be using '--homedir' on the command-line to make this
> work from the Task Scheduler?
> 		Of course, you can't place this in the options file, because
> gpg has to know HomeDir to read the options

That's what I would do if it is running in the context of another user.
And yes, --homedir and a few other options are processed before
reading an options file.

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