question on multiple public keys

[David Shaw]

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On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 10:16:00PM +0200, 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.

Yes, this is possible.  In each user's gpg.conf file, add a line
reading:

  keyring /path/to/the/shared/keyring.gpg

Note that when importing a key, each user will import to their own
local keyring unless they specifically state they want to import to
the shared keyring.  Likely you don't want the shared keyring to be
imported to by random users, so making it read-only is appropriate.

David
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