Question about the windows port

John Clizbe JPClizbe at comcast.net
Thu Dec 4 22:23:36 CET 2003


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Jim C. wrote:

> I am in a cross platform multi-user environment and I would like to know
> if there are alterations that I can make to the install that will make
> it user directory aware on 'Doze.  This is to say that I would like
> individual user keys stored in the correct location for Windows users
> who use the multi-user versions, (i.e. NT, 2K & XP).  Normally this
> would be in the "%APPDATA%\GnuPG" directory where "%APPDATA%" is an
> environment variable that is usually something like:
>
> C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Application Data
>
> I can use a batch file that has something in it like this:
>
> gpg --homedir="%APPDATA%\GnuPG"
>
> which actually works.  Problem is that I can't get it to work right with
> Mozilla Enigmail because it appends an ".exe" along with some other
> issues. What about the gpg.conf file?  Is there something in there that
> I can set?
>

try this REGEDIT file:
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REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\GNU]

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\GNU\GNUPG]
"HomeDir"="%APPDATA%\\GnuPG"
"gpgProgram"="C:\\PRogram Files\\GnuPG\\gpg.exe"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Mingw32]

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Mingw32\NLS]
"MODir"="C:\\Program Files\\GnuPG\\Locale"

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gpg will look for gpg.conf and the keyrings in the directory specified by
HomeDir.


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