On Wed, 08 Oct 2008, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > The GNU Privacy Handbook says: > > Safely storing your private key is important, but there is a cost. > Ideally, you would keep the private key on a removable, > write-protected > disk such as a floppy disk, and you would use it on a single-user > machine not connected to a network. > > However, it turns out gpg makes following this advice hard. If > ~/.gnupg/secring.gpg > is a symlink (in my case, to a file on a USB fob), and the keyring changes > (for example, deleting a public-private key pair), gpg breaks the symlink and > creates > a new file where the symlink was, instead of modifying the target of the > symlink.
That's probably a side-effect of safely updating keyrings: write to a temporary file, then move the now consistent new keyring in its proper place. If you want to have your secret keyring some place else you should use the --secret-keyring option (or "secret-keyring" in your gpg config file). -- | .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** Peter Palfrader | : :' : The universal http://www.palfrader.org/ | `. `' Operating System | `- http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]