Problems finding keyring with GnuPGME

[mconahan at zixtestott.com]

harry_b at mm.st wrote:

> Hi,
>
> this should be quite easy - just set the environment variable 
> GNUPGHOME before you start your process and all should be fine.
>
> It defaults to '$HOME/.gnupg' I think but you can set it to whatever 
> you want. The directory should not be readable by anybody else than 
> the current user.
>
> HTH, Harry
>
>
> --On Tuesday, April 12, 2005 09:55:47 -0400 mconahan at zixtestott.com 
> wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>>     I created a Linux application that uses GnuPGME.  The app is started
>> by a server process, and as a result is having troubles accessing PGP
>> keyrings.  This is probably a permissions thing, as I installed GnuPG as
>> the root user; the API (GnuPGME) is probably looking for the keyring at
>> /root/.gnupg/.
>>
>> FYI, if I run my app as root on the command line, everything works fine;
>> however, I need to start this process with a server.
>> I am currently looking at three options: 1) update the GnuPGME keyring
>> functions that I use to allow me to specify arbitrary keyrings of my
>> choice, 2) investigate what user process is running my app, and create a
>> home directory for it with keyrings and all, or 3)investigate if 
>> there is
>> some undocumented function  in GnuPGME that I can use to help me specify
>> the keyring of my choice.
>>
>> Any help/advice provided by anyone would be greatly appreciated.
>
>
> -- 
>
> 1024D/40F14012 18F3 736A 4080 303C E61E  2E72 7E05 1F6E 40F1 4012
>
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> -

Thanks!  Your solution worked like magic.