[kdepim-users] Copying digital certificates between machines

[Anne Wilson]

On Monday 12 January 2009 21:21:50 Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> On Monday 12 January 2009, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > On Monday 12 January 2009 19:48:47 Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> > > On Monday 12 January 2009, Eric A. Bonney wrote:
> > > > So after seeing the indepth discussion on here a week or so ago
> > > > about signing emails and such, I decided to set it up on my end.
> > > > I used KGpg to get everything setup and then configured in
> > > > Kontact just fine.
> > > >
> > > > Now I use 2-3 different machines for sending email depending on
> > > > if I am on my laptop, office computer or away from the house. I
> > > > was wondering how do I easily copy the keys from one machine to
> > > > another machine?
> > >
> > > Either you copy the complete ~/.gnupg folder, or you copy just the
> > > two key rings ~/.gnupg/pubring.gpg (key ring with public keys) and
> > > ~/.gnupg/secring.gpg (key ring with your secret keys). Make sure
> > > nobody gets his hands on secring.gpg.
> >
> > Ingo, can you please clarify what the permissions should be?  Thanks
>
> Here, secring.gpg is only readable and writable by me, i.e. the Access
> Permissions (as shown in the Properties dialog) are
>   Owner Can Read & Write
>   Group Forbidden
>   Others Forbidden
>
> The folder ~/.gnupg has Access Permissions
>   Owner Can View & Modify Content
>   Group Forbidden
>   Others Forbidden
>
>
> I think those are the default permissions gpg sets when it is started
> for the first time.
>
OK, thanks.  Whatever my problem is, it's not that, then.

Anne
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