gnupg.conf

[Werner Koch]

On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 19:23, jw72253 at verizon.net said:

> Even so, I can see that configuration settings do in fact exist above
> and below this block, and they do not appear to be disabled from what
> I can tell.  Is this a functionality of gpg itself or of one of the

gpgconf is a part of GnuPG-2.  It is a helper program to edit
configuration files.  Frontends should use gpgconf to change the
configuration.  Gpgconf takes care that the options are syntactically
valid and for certain option changes it sends a HUP to the respective
GnuPG process.

However, gpgconf does not know about all options.  If there are unknown
options in a conf file, gpgconf won't change them and thus you may see
them above the gpgconf markers.

  $ man gpgconf

It is also described in the manual

  http://gnupg.org/documentation/manuals/gnupg/gpgconf.html


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

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