Automated importing of keys

[Anthony E. Greene]

On 28-Jan-2004/17:48 -0500, "Derek S. Graham" <GRAHAMDS at student.gvsu.edu> wrote:
>I am working on a project where we are using GPG in an automated
>environment to pull encrypted files from a DMZ server and automatically
>decrypt them and move them to a specified location.  All this is working
>fine.  The problem I have is I need a script (Perl) that an administator
>can run to add new public keys to the key ring the application uses.  The
>application runs on a linux server under a user ID, mover, and we do not
>want to have administrators logining in as this ID.  My question is: is
>there a way that another user can access mover's GPG key ring to add and
>sign public keys?  I have created an Admin group of which mover is a part
>of.  Also I do not want to open up the permissions too much on the .gnupg
>directory, the secret key does not use a passphrase to allow for
>automation.  Any insight will be greatly appreciated.

Move the Public keyring to a place where both "mover" and the primary app
can get to it. It does no have to be in the .gnupg directory.

Tony
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