Problem exporting secret keys

[Dave Chapeskie]

On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 08:05:03AM -0700, Ivan Herhandez wrote:
> ./gpg -a --export-secret-keys my_name
> 
> it says:
> 
> gpg: my_name: user not found: secret key not available
> gpg: WARNING: nothing exported

It can't find the key on your secret ring with the information you've
used (my_name).  Possible reasons include a) typo in {my_name} b) you
don't have the secret key c) the --secret-keyring option is set wrong.

I'd recommend doing "gpg --list-secret-keys", that will verify that
GnuPG is finding the secret keyring.  I'd then use the appropriate keyid
from that list as the argument to --export-secret-keys.  I find it best
to specify keys by keyid for such commands to avoid possible issues with
non-unique user names (I have a couple older keys with the same e-mail
address and name).

Alternatively you can use --export-secret-keys without arguments to
export the entire secret keyring.

-- 
Dave Chapeskie
OpenPGP Key KeyId: 3D2B6B34