Newbie qusetions

[Werner Koch]

Matthias Urlichs <smurf at noris.de> writes:

> Which is because gpg isn't setuid root, which it needs in order to be able
> to tell the system that some of its memory should not be swapped out.
> 
> That being said, the message should appear only when you're doing
> something which requires a secret key...

No way.  I have to allocate the locked memory early on startup to drop
setuid as soon as possible and I can't check the option at this stage.

Put a

no-secmem-warning

into your ~/.gnupg/options or install as setuid.