RE: No secret key under different account

2009-11-02 Thread David Gray
What are peoples thoughts on which is the best option: a) copy the secring.gpg & pubring.gpg files to the second user account? b) export and import the keys to the second user account? c) add a reference to the second account's gpg.conf file? Also could anyone please give me an example of t

gpg.conf

2009-11-02 Thread David Gray
Hi Could anyone point me in the right direction for a manual/examples on how to edit the gpg.conf file for GnuPG 2.0.12 (GPG 4 Win)? The pdf manual which gets installed with this kit contains no references and the readme only tells me that gpg.conf gets created during install. I w

OpenPGP card usage

2009-11-02 Thread Pedro Ferreira
Hello, I admit this is a bit odd, but I'm having some elementary problems using my OpenPGP card. I got an OpenPGP v2 card and a Gemalto usb reader. Followed the howto on http://www.gnupg.org/howtos/card-howto/en/smartcard-howto-single.html to initialize the card using the generate command. Everyt

Re: No secret key under different account

2009-11-02 Thread John Clizbe
David Gray wrote: > > What are peoples thoughts on which is the best option: > > a) copy the secring.gpg & pubring.gpg files to the second user account? > b) export and import the keys to the second user account? > c) add a reference to the second account's gpg.conf file? it depends on what

RE: gpg.conf

2009-11-02 Thread David Gray
Hello John, Thanks for the man page and skeleton file for gpg.conf, both very useful. The main issue at the moment (thread: "No secret key under different account") is how to access the keyring files under a different account. I'm looking for the best (least duplication of data/settings )

Re: gpg.conf

2009-11-02 Thread Michel Messerschmidt
On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 10:51:46AM -, David Gray wrote: > Could anyone point me in the right direction for a manual/examples > on how to edit the gpg.conf file for GnuPG 2.0.12 (GPG 4 Win)? http://www.gnupg.org/documentation/manuals/gnupg/Invoking-GPG.html#Invoking-GPG Within this manual yo

Re: gpg.conf

2009-11-02 Thread John Clizbe
David Gray wrote: > Hello John, > > Thanks for the man page and skeleton file for gpg.conf, both very useful. Anytime > The main issue at the moment (thread: "No secret key under different > account") is how > to access the keyring files under a different account. I'm looking for the > be

Re: No secret key under different account

2009-11-02 Thread Robert J. Hansen
David Gray wrote: > What are peoples thoughts on which is the best option: I will stay out of this except to say options A and B are substantively identical. Beyond that, this is a system administration question. I know nothing of your system, and that means the best thing I can do is to stay o

Re: OpenPGP card usage

2009-11-02 Thread Ede Wolf
> I admit this is a bit odd, No, it's a pretty natural question. I had the same idea > Now when I take the card to another computer, with an empty keyring, > shouldn't I be able to make use of my private key stored on the card? Wishful thinking. Unfortunately it does not work that way. At least

Create extra keyring

2009-11-02 Thread Thorsten Alge
Hi List, i want to organize a signing party and want to collect the keys in an extra keyring as it is mentioned in the singning party howto. The problem is, i dont know how to create an use the keyring but i also couldnt find anything in the FAQ/Doc/manual or anywhere else. Can anybody help? Thx,