Question about using additional keyrings

[David Shaw]

On Mar 5, 2009, at 12:32 AM, Faramir wrote:

> David Shaw escribió:
>
>>> secret-keyring z:\gpghome\secring.gpg
>>> (that's the location of the secring that has the unedited keys)
>>>
>>> But my question is: what does that line do? When it is in  
>>> gpg.conf, do
>>> I have the 2 secrings at the same time, or it replaces the usage  
>>> of the
>>> keyring located in gpghome with the one on my z drive?
>>
>> Here's how it works: GPG allows for multiple public keyrings (via
>> "keyring") and multiple secret keyrings (via "secret-keyring").  The
>> default public keyring is $GNUPGHOME/pubring.gpg.  The default secret
>> keyring is $GNUPGHOME/secring.gpg.  Any keyrings, public or secret,  
>> that
>> you add are in addition to those defaults.  If you don't want the
>> defaults to be present at all, use --no-default-keyring.
>>
>> Thus in your case, you have two secret keyrings, unless there is a
>> --no-default-keyring somewhere or $GNUPGHOME/secring.gpg does not  
>> exist.
>
>  Ok, and if I also add another pubring file, and I download a public
> key, where would it be stored? In the default keyring, or in the
> additional one?

The first one that is writable.  If you want to force it to be written  
to a particular keyring, use the "primary-keyring" command instead of  
just "keyring".

David