Can't find public key during encryption

[Henry Hertz Hobbit]

>Message: 4
>Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 09:54:11 -0400
>From: "Jenkins, Brian P." <BPJenkins at delinvest.com>
>Subject: Can't find public key during encryption
>To: <gnupg-users at gnupg.org>
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>I run GPG 1.2.4 on a windows cluster using one of 3 users.  All users
>except for 1 work fine on either node.  The failing user works on one
>node of the cluster but not the other.  I verified that the registry
>settings for 
>[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\GNU\GNUPG]
>"HomeDir"="H:\Data\bin\GnuPG"
>"gpgProgram"="H:\Data\bin\GnuPG\gpg.exe"
>"OptFile"="H:\Data\bin\GnuPG\gpg.conf"
>
>are the same for all users.  I get the error below, of course only on
>encryption.
>
>The failure is below.  Why is GPG looking to the C: drive for this
>operation?
>
>
>\\presto\bin\gnupg\gpg -o tradeint_dial.2005060716424957.pgp -r mondrian
>--yes --always-trust -e tradeint_dial.2005060716424957  
>gpg: keyblock resource `c:/gnupg\secring.gpg': file open error
>gpg: keyblock resource `c:/gnupg\pubring.gpg': file open error
>gpg: mondrian: skipped: public key not found
>gpg: tradeint_dial.2005060716424957: encryption failed: public key not
>found
>
>Thanks,
>Brian Jenkins
>

Brian:

I suspect that the [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\GNU\GNUPG] key
on one of the machines (you said cluster but intimated that it
consisted of only two machines) is wrong.  You must have a
separate key for each machine since each machine has their
own registry.  The only thing that is hard coded in the source
code is for a failure of the GetTempPath() function in
g10\exec.c file:

/* lines 140...145 */
  if(tmp==NULL)
    {
#if defined (_WIN32)
      tmp=m_alloc(256);
      if(GetTempPath(256,tmp)==0)
        strcpy(tmp,"c:\\windows\\temp");

If the registry key isn't the problem, then I suspect the
gpg.conf file is either different or not there on the one
machine and user you are having problems with.

Ciao

Henry Hertz Hobbit
-- 
Key Name:  "Henry Hertz Hobbit" <hhhobbit at securemecca.net>
pub   1024D/E1FA6C62 2005-04-11 [expires: 2006-04-11]
Key fingerprint = ACA0 B65B E20A 552E DFE2 EE1D 75B9 D818 E1FA 6C62


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