question on multiple public keys

[Adrian von Bidder]

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On Tuesday 14 October 2003 22:16, Stephan Stapel wrote:
> Dear list,
>
> I'm planning a network installation of GnuPG. Since some of the public keys
> are used by all people, I would like to know if it's possible to use
> multiple public keyrings with GnuPG, e.g. one that is local (specific per
> user) and one that is global (for all users within the network). If this is
> not possible, are there any other strategies. However I would try to avoid
> installing either a keyserver or exchanging the necessary public keys in a
> peer-2-peer manner.

Multiple keyrings are possible in principle. Last I've tried (1.2.1 perhaps), 
the case where one keyring was read-only and one read-write was not handled 
gracefully when the user tried to update a key that was on the read-only 
keyring (i.e. gpg would try to add the key to the read-only keyring and 
fail).

Dunno, is that handled in the current version?

cheers
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