[wellylug] gpg: signing failed: secret key,not,available

Richard Hector richard at walnut.gen.nz
Wed Oct 15 17:58:08 NZDT 2008


On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 17:50 +1300, Atom Smasher wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Oct 2008, Adam Bogacki wrote:
> 
> > I read somewhere about the need to import and export (secret ?) keys. I 
> > don't know if that's relevant but it strikes me that I could just copy 
> > 'secring.gpg' from ~/.gnupg What would be the best way of doing this ?
> ====================
> 
> you make backups of your home dir... right?
> 
> your secret keys (and everything else in your dot-files) *should* be part 
> of that.

Depends where (how securely) you're going to keep them.

Richard




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