Import of old keys

Olav Seyfarth olav at mozilla-enigmail.org
Sat Jan 9 00:21:12 CET 2010


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Hi Bernhard,

> After moving to Ubuntu (OT: for multimedia reasons) I fail to use these
> keys with the newly created account. I have access to all the old files
> and directories and would like to get some help for the incorporation of
> the old keys into the new system.

GnuPG uses ~/.gnupg as homedir. It should be sufficient to move the content
of your old homedir to the new one. Alternatively, you may let GnuPG import
your keys and/or keyrings by using gpg --import <file>. What issues do you
encounter?

Olav
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