Daniel Kahn Gillmor <d...@fifthhorseman.net> writes: > On Wed 2015-02-11 00:41:18 -0500, Xavier Maillard wrote: >> May I ask how one would sign public keys when a "master key" is >> stored onto an USB stick ? >> >> I followed instructions from [1]. Now I am in the process of >> announcing my key transition to all old signers *but*, as a last >> test, I just tested public signature with my "master key" and this is >> where troubles occur: >> >> LANG=C gpg --home /Volumes/FSF/.gnupg --recv-keys <A KEYID> >> gpg: WARNING: unsafe permissions on homedir `/Volumes/FSF/.gnupg' >> gpg: external program calls are disabled due to unsafe options file >> permissions >> gpg: keyserver communications error: General error >> gpg: keyserver receive failed: General error >> >> So what ? My USB stick is formated using extFat so permissions are >> something unknown. > > The fact that you're using a FAT volume is the root cause here; FAT > filesystems do not have ownership or permissions, so when a modern OS > mounts them, it has to fake permissions for these files.
Thank you for this precision. Are you aware of some "portable" and well supported by the 3-major OSes filesystem type ? Regards -- Xavier
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