folder security problem with random_seed

[David Hill]

We have installed GnuPG and our keys on the network. Unfortunately random_seed requires excessive permissions, since it seems to be destroyed and recreated during each command, we need to grant read/write/update/delete permissions to that folder for all GnuPG users. If the random_seed file could be relocated to the users local temp folder or to a common writeable location on the network then we would be able to lock the security of the GnuPG installation down to just read access.

Dave Hill
dhill at studentloan.org
Iowa Student Loan Liquidity Corp.
515-273-7241
Fax 515-243-0714