Insecure Memory Warning! ???.

[Christopher Massanova]

How would I go about setting my uid as root in RH 7.0?  That seems easier 
than setting no-secmem-warning in all of my .gnupg/options files.
Thanks again for your help!


At 08:43 AM 10/18/00, Florian Weimer wrote:
>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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