gpg --list-config should be able to run when $HOME is not writeable (or does not exist)

Werner Koch wk at gnupg.org
Thu Sep 1 19:25:54 CEST 2016


On Thu,  1 Sep 2016 00:19, dkg at fifthhorseman.net said:

> some gnupg commands (like --list-config) seem to want to do a lot more
> than they need to with the filesystem.  They report errors when the
> gnupg homedir is not writeable, and they fail outright when $HOME is not
> writeable (or does not exist).  but "gpg --version" works fine in those


I just pushed a fix for master.

  --list-config
  --list-gcrypt-config
  --gpgconf-list
  --gpgconf-test

won't anymore register a default keyring and thus create ~/.gnupg.


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner


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