New command line language parameter

Johan Wevers johanw at vulcan.xs4all.nl
Mon Feb 12 01:12:59 CET 2007


Henry Hertz Hobbit wrote:

>running GnuPG on Windows!  To lead it all off, if you are running as
>an Administrator user all the time on Windows you are doing the
>equivalent of RUNNING AS root ALL THE TIME ON A UNIX SYSTEM!  The
>present Windows GnuPG 1.4.X installs assume people do this.

On Unix systems, you also often have to be root to install software.
Especially for GnuPG on Linux to set the s-bit to allow it to claim
secure memory. To run it as user is no problem though, both on Linux
of Windows.

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