gpg on read-only filesystem

[Friedhelm Waitzmann]

Hello!

Fourhundred Thecat:

>Also, I consider it good practice to have / mounted read-only, and I
>don't understand why gpg would need to open trustdb.gpg in rw mode, when
>using  simple operations such as gpg --verify.

>gpg: Fatal: can't open '/root/.gnupg/trustdb.gpg': Operation not permitted

A solution for the verify use case: Just read the manual
(<https://www.gnupg.org/documentation/manuals/gnupg/GPG-Configuration-Options.html#index-auto_002dcheck_002dtrustdb>)
and use “--no-auto-check-trustdb”.

HTH
Friedhelm
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