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Setting up a second user on the same laptop

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pedzsan

12 Aug, 2012 07:23 PM

I actually have three accounts / users on my laptop. One is an admin user which I rarely use. The other two are personal, non-admin accounts -- one for my personal stuff and one for my work stuff.

I installed the package as my work id but when prompted for an admin password, I gave it the admin user id and password. All that seemed to go fine. I created a key pair and sent a few emails. I can see gpg in my preferences panel, etc.

I logged out and logged back in as the other non-admin user. I don't see gpg in my preferences panel. When I do "ps -ef" I can see gpg-agent running for the work user but not for the non-work (non-admin) user.

I thought about installing a second time but thought that I might should ask first. I searched around and could not find this question.

Thank you,
Perry

1. Support Staff 1 Posted by Luke Le on 14 Aug, 2012 10:55 AM

   

   Hi Perry,

   in the past we've installed all our tools in the user's library, but now we've changed that to use the multi user library (/Library).
   So the best thing to do this is to run the GPGTools uninstaller and uninstall everything first.
   After that, download the nightly build of GPGTools from http://nightly.gpgtools.org and install that version.

   After the installation completes try to login with one of your other users and check if you can see the GPG Preferences. They should be there, but I'm not entirely sure if they are installed in the multi user library as well.

   In order to use gpg on your other accounts the last thing you need to do is importing your private keys.

   For that follow these steps:

   1.) Login to your account where you've originally created your GPG keys.
   2.) Open GPG Keychain Access
   3.) Check "Only show private keys" in the lower right corner (loosely translated from german)
   4.) Select the keys you want to use on the other accounts and press Export in the toolbar (check "export secret key" option)
   5.) Store them to a place where you have access to from the other accounts (for example in /Users)
   6.) Login to another account
   7.) Open GPG Keychain Access
   8.) Press Import from the toolbar
   9.) Select the key file you exported in step 4
   10.) Repeat 6-9 for each other account

   Hope that helps.

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2. 2 Posted by pedzsan on 14 Aug, 2012 02:57 PM

   

   Hi

   I'll likely do this over the weekend. Please keep this open and I'll report back.

   Thank you for all the hard work

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3. Support Staff 3 Posted by Steve on 14 Aug, 2012 10:35 PM

   

   Let us know, should you need further assistance.

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4. 4 Posted by pedzsan on 19 Aug, 2012 12:39 PM

   

   Things are working great.

   Thank you
   Perry

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5. Support Staff 5 Posted by Steve on 19 Aug, 2012 12:50 PM

   

   Yippie :)

   Closing.

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6. Steve closed this discussion on 19 Aug, 2012 12:50 PM.