gnupg on FlashDisk with autofs (o.t.?)

[David Shaw]

On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 12:08:15PM +0200, Thomas Liesner wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> well, i actually resigned... There is no solution for it.
> The problem is the filesystem. Those flash-disks come with a vfat
> filesystem out of their box. Vfat does not know anything about
> users/permissions etc. (hence no chmod/chown etc.). The only solution is
> to mount it with umask 777 which is not really an option ;) Changing
> it's filesystem to to something like ext2nd is not working with my
> MacOS-X box and ufs is not working with my MacOS-9 box... And now think
> of ntfs...
> Okay, i think i stick to vfat and keep my hands securly on the disk...
> Too bad.

There is a solution.  The problem is in locking, so if you use
--lock-never then GnuPG will not try and lock the keyrings.  However,
you will need to make very sure you never run two copies of GnuPG at
the same time :)

One good way to do it is to keep the pubring online as it is the one
people generally need to write to when importing new keys, and only
keeping the secring on the flash disk.  No locking issues in that
system unless you want to add a new secret key.

David

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