secret key not available

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

On Wed 2016-06-01 11:44:16 -0400, DODDI ANTHONY BALARAJU cs15d008 wrote:

> <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/37566637/why-showing-error-gpg-signing-failed#>
> I'm new to this GPG usage. I dont need any internals. I am running a shell
> script in which following line causes error :
>
> gpg --yes --sign message.txt
>
> It shows the following error:
>
> gpg: no default secret key: secret key not available
> gpg: signing failed: secret key not available
>
> How can I solve this error, without modifying the command? (do I need to
> change any settings). I am using gpg version (GnuPG) 1.4.16
>
>>which gpg
>
> is giving the output
>
> /usr/bin/gpg
>
> I Tried with --default-key <something>
>
> Still it dint work!!
>
> Any suggestion to get past this error will be greatly helpful.

You don't mention whether you have any secret keys available.  What
do you get by running:


 gpg --list-options show-usage --list-secret-keys


Are there any signing-capable secret keys listed?

        --dkg