No secret key under different account

[David Gray]

Hi, 
Thanks for the info & detailed response.  I'm going to go with 
option C as you suggest.  Must admit I hadn't realised that .MAN 
pages are the docs. 

Cheers
Dave 


-----Original Message-----
From: John Clizbe [mailto:John at Mozilla-Enigmail.org] 
Sent: 02 November 2009 12:02
To: GnuPG Users
Cc: David Gray
Subject: Re: No secret key under different account

David Gray wrote:
> 
> What are peoples thoughts on which is the best option: 
> 
> a) copy the secring.gpg & pubring.gpg files to the second user account? 
> b) export and import the keys to the second user account? 
> c) add a reference to the second account's gpg.conf file? 

it depends on what you are trying to accomplish. Any of the above may be the best option for a given set of requirements. If I wish to use my keys on a new machine, option a or redirecting gpg.conf to keyrings (& trustdb) on portable media is probably the route I'd take.

If I wanted to share a central keyring of, for example, customer keys, I probably go with option c.

> Also could anyone please give me an example of the syntax for adding 
> keyring references to gpg.conf?

no-default-keyring
primary-keyring		pubring.gpg
keyring         	O:\GnuPG\pubring.gpg
keyring			strong.gpg
keyring			trusted.gpg
secret-keyring  	secring.gpg
secret-keyring  	O:\GnuPG\secring.gpg

These should be explained in gpg2.man which should be in the share\gnupg directory under gpg2's onstallation directory, default on Windows:
C:\Program Files\GNU\GnuPG2\share\gnupg\gpg2.man. It can be read with Notepad


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