On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 09:17:55PM +0200, Rogier Krieger wrote:
> On 6/20/05, Ray Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Setting up GPG and I thought I enabled encrypted swap with sysctl -w
> > vm.swapencrypt.enable=1
>
> You're already there; only GPG doesn't know about that. I suspect you
> misread the instructions. GPG will whine about insecure memory so long
> as it does not have setuid bits set on the executable
Yes I did, misread that is. Thanks for the clue.
>
> By encrypting the swap, you eliminated the need for those setuid bits.
> GPG, however, will continue to whine until you either tell it to shut
> up or add the (now unnecessary) setuid bits.
>
> Your gpg.conf is the place to edit and add the equivalent of the
> command line option "--no-secmem-warning" to your setup.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Rogier
>
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