beginners trouble

[Anthony E. Greene]

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On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Johannes Graumann wrote:
>I have two questions:
>1) if I try to generate a key on a rh7.1 machine with the gnupg 1.0.6 rpm as 
>a normal user, I get the "insecure memory" warning. Reading the faq, I 
>learn, that gnupg should be installed as root, so that the memory used is 
>secure (?). Do I have to use Gnupg all the time as root not to have the 
>insecure memory problem?

Yes. You can fix this after installation by making gpg a setuid program:

  chmod u+s /usr/bin/gpg

>2) I tryed to figure out how to tell gnupg that my keyrings are on a floppy 
>- didn't work. Can somebody please hint me towards the right commands?

In your ~/.gnupg/options file, add lines like this:

keyring /mnt/floppy/pubring.gpg
secret-keyring /mnt/floppy/secring.gpg


Or if you want to keep the entire ~/.gnupg directory on a floppy, then in
your ~/.bash_profile add a GNUPGHOME environment variable:

GNUPGHOME=/mnt/floppy

and make sure to add the GNUPGHOME variable to the list of exported
variables in ~/.bash_profile.

Tony
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