Insecure Memory Warning! ???.

[Florian Weimer]

Christopher Massanova <flyers@tampabay.rr.com> writes:

> This works flawlessly if I am logged in as ROOT, but if I try it as
> any other account, I get the following:
> 
> # gpg: Warning: using insecure memory!

http://www.gnupg.org/faq.html#q6.1

| 6.1) Why do I get "gpg: Warning: using insecure memory!" 
| 
| On many systems this program should be installed as setuid(root). This
| is necessary to lock memory pages. Locking memory pages prevents the
| operating system from writing memory pages to disk and thereby keeping
| your secret keys really secret. If you get no warning message about
| insecure memory your operating system supports locking without being
| root. The program drops root privileges as soon as locked memory is
| allocated.
| 
| If you can't or don't want to install GnuPG setuid(root), you can use
| the option "--no-secmem-warning" or put
| 
| no-secmem-warning 
| 
| in your ~/.gnupg/options file. 

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