Re: Migrating password store to new hard drive
That worked. Thanks for the help. On 4/4/21 3:48 PM, Ingo Klöcker wrote: On Sonntag, 4. April 2021 20:14:56 CEST Neil Webster via Gnupg-users wrote: I have recently installed a new SSD on my computer and I am trying to move my password store (using pass) to the new drive. I am using Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS. I have always copied the whole ~/.gnupg folder from the old system/disk to the new system/disk when I migrated to a new PC or a new hard drive. Actually, I always copied my whole home directory. Only when setting up a secondary computer I copied selected folders including the ~/.gnupg folder and the password store. I suggest to do the same, i.e., instead of exporting and importing secret keys, simply copy the .gnupg folder from the old disk to the new disk. Make a backup of the already existing .gnupg folder on the new disk before proceeding just in case. Regards, Ingo ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
Migrating password store to new hard drive
Hello, I have recently installed a new SSD on my computer and I am trying to move my password store (using pass) to the new drive. I am using Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS. I can see the individual *.gpg files that form the password store but I am not able to decrypt them. Here are some things I have tried $gpg -K returns with nothing Running gpg directly on a single file in the password store using $gpg -d filename gives $gpg: encrypted with 3072-bit RSA key, ID 94FDE31D5B3E9BC6, created 2020-03-11 "m...@emailaddress.com" $gpg: decryption failed: No secret key I tried exporting the secret key from the old drive using $gpg --export-secret-keys --armor --output privkey.asc m...@emailaddress.com and tried importing on the new drive using $gpg --import privkey.asc the import process seems to succeed with the following message $gpg: key D96B626F551DE067: "m...@emailaddress.com" not changed $gpg: key D96B626F551DE067: secret key imported $gpg: Total number processed: 1 $gpg: unchanged: 1 $gpg: secret keys read: 1 $gpg: secret keys unchanged: 1 Not sure if it is important or not but inside the ~/.gnupg/private-keys-v1.d/ directory I have 2 files 5A96EC16F8D4B37AEEF42D805853853AAECAAE20.key 6E8963C9E7FBC51DEFA9DDE31FC12AC65F7D865D.key Cheers, Neil ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
Re: Migrating password store to new hard drive
On Sonntag, 4. April 2021 20:14:56 CEST Neil Webster via Gnupg-users wrote: > I have recently installed a new SSD on my computer and I am trying to > move my password store (using pass) to the new drive. I am using Ubuntu > 20.04.2 LTS. I have always copied the whole ~/.gnupg folder from the old system/disk to the new system/disk when I migrated to a new PC or a new hard drive. Actually, I always copied my whole home directory. Only when setting up a secondary computer I copied selected folders including the ~/.gnupg folder and the password store. I suggest to do the same, i.e., instead of exporting and importing secret keys, simply copy the .gnupg folder from the old disk to the new disk. Make a backup of the already existing .gnupg folder on the new disk before proceeding just in case. Regards, Ingo signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users