Beginner's Q: How to change the location of my keyrings?

[Christoph Hertel]

* Thus spake shang@skz.sony.co.jp [2001-03-01]:

> I know PGP has a environment variable "PGPPATH" which can control the
> default location of the keyrings. How can I do this in GPG?
Either change the Home Directory:
--homedir directory
  Set  the name of the home directory to directory If this option is not
  used it defaults to "~/.gnupg".  It does not make sense to use this in
  a options file. This also overrides the envi- ronment variable
  "GNUPGHOME".

or do other things:
--keyring file
  Add file to  the  list  of  keyrings.   If  file begins with a tilde
  and a slash, these are replaced by the HOME directory. If the filename
  does not contain a slash, it is assumed to be in the home-directory
  ("~/.gnupg" if --homedir is not used).  The filename may be prefixed
  with a scheme:

  "gnupg-ring:" is the default one.

  "gnupg-gdbm:" may be used for a GDBM ring.  Note that GDBM is
  experimental and likely to be removed in future versions.

  It might make sense  to  use  it  together  with --no-default-keyring.

--secret-keyring file
  Same as --keyring but for the secaret keyrings.


That stuff is taken out of the man page for gpg under linux. The Windows
port of GnuPG should have a doc somewhere with the same stuff in it.



Christoph