automated GPG ?

[Ivan Lamouret]

Hi,

I need to automate signing messages with gpg (1.0.4). I've read the FAQ
(http://www.gnupg.org/faq.html#q4.13) and followed instructions therein, and
browsed through the mailing list archive but could not find what's not
working. I've also tried with the last gpg version (1.0.6) without more
success.

ok here is what I tried :
followed steps 1 to 4 ok
step 5 from the FAQ:
>gpg --homedir . --edit foo
[...]
gpg: Warning: using insecure memory!
gpg: ./secring.gpg: keyring created

gpg: ./trustdb.gpg: trustdb created
gpg: key XXXX595B.59: inserted into trustdb
pub  1024D/XXXX595B  created: 2001-08-30 expires: never      trust: -/q
sub  1024g/XXXX01D6  created: 2001-08-30 expires: never
sub  1024D/XXXX70E7  created: 2001-08-30 expires: never
(1)  Foo (foo) <ivan.lamouret@novitek.fr>

Command> passwd
Need the secret key to do this.

I have also tried to
gpg --homedir . --allow-secret-key-import --import secring.auto
OK
now I remove the password OK ,
now
>gpg --homedir . -sa ../tmp.txt
gpg: Warning: using insecure memory!
gpg: secret key parts are not available
gpg: no default secret key: general error
gpg: signing failed: general error


And also tried
gpg --homedir . --secret-keyring secring.auto --edit foo

I can remove the password but I get the same error (secret parts not
available) when trying to sign the document.


Any help would be much appreciated.

Further questions : on the target machine steps 1 of the FAQ is "Install
secring.auto as secret keyring". Can someone explain exactly what's meant by
"install"? is that import? is that rename file? are those the same?
I've observed that gpg creates all missing .gpg files. Do I need the public
keyring also on the target machine?

Ivan
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