-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 Neil Williams wrote: > On Wednesday 20 July 2005 11:02 am, Sascha Kiefer wrote: > >>Hi >> >>1. is it possible to receive a key to a file instead of to the keyring? > > > --keyring <file> --no-default-keyring > from man gpg: > --keyring file > Add file to the current list of keyrings. If file begins with a > tilde > and a slash, these are replaced > by the $HOME directory. If the filename does not contain a slash, it > is assumed to be in the GnuPG home > directory ("~/.gnupg" if --homedir or $GNUPGHOME is not used). > > Note that this adds a keyring to the current list. If the intent is > > to use the specified keyring > alone, use --keyring along with --no-default-keyring. >
I suspect you might also want to use --primary-keyring: > --primary-keyring file > Designate file as the primary public keyring. This means > that newly imported keys (via --import or keyserver --recv- > from) will go to this keyring. so something like > gpg --keyring <file> --primary-keyring <file> combined with the import statement may (or may not) do want you want. - -- Alphax | /"\ Encrypted Email Preferred | \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign OpenPGP key ID: 0xF874C613 | X Against HTML email & vCards http://tinyurl.com/cc9up | / \ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFC3lJ+/RxM5Ph0xhMRA3rXAJ9u5ab4evwfg4TR505mN1HKNA10bACeMAyn FtXbZosSTAaPTyhKgpVYQpE= =DuhR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users