Re: Need non-writable --homedir

2006-09-14 Thread Johan Wevers
Josef Wolf wrote: >I need a setup where the user running "gpg -e -r foobar" is not able to >modify keyring contents. I tried: > > # chown -R root:user ~user/.gnupg > # chmod -R o=rwX,g=rX,o= ~user/.gnupg You'd better use chattr -i on it. >to use --lock-never as long as it is guarantee

Re: dump/dd/tar + gpg > tape = file write error

2006-09-14 Thread User1001
Thanks for the suggestion. Your "pipeline assumption" was correct. I have an Exabyte SCSI-3 tape drive which is faster than most DAT drives, so it is worth it to see if I can get "encrypted backups" to work easily enough. Next - I will be experimenting with encrypting backups via ISO (CD images),

[Announce] libgpg-error 1.4 released

2006-09-14 Thread Werner Koch
Hi, We are pleased to announce version 1.4 of libgpg-error, a library for common error values and messages in GnuPG components. This is a shared library so it can be updated independently of each individual component, while still allowing the use of new error values in inter-process communication

Re: Compiling GnuPG 1.4.5 for Windows on Windows

2006-09-14 Thread Mica Mijatovic
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Was Fri, 08 Sep 2006, at 08:23:35 +0200, when Werner wrote: > On Thu, 7 Sep 2006 22:57, Mica Mijatovic said: >> And when I'm already at the desk, just a brief note that if a source >> code is being delivered as well, to the users, then it