Feature Request: support symlinks in .gnupg/ directory
Hi!
My GPG keys are on my Linux server to have my keys secure in one
location. From my MBP I access my .gnupg directory via netatalk,
which works basically.
More precisely I do not symlink the whole directory to my linux
server, but just the necessary files:
lrwxr-xr-x 1 ij staff 42 25 Jan 22:15 pubring.gpg ->
/Volumes/Home Directory/.gnupg/pubring.gpg
lrwxr-xr-x 1 ij staff 42 24 Okt 2013 random_seed ->
/Volumes/Home Directory/.gnupg/random_seed
lrwxr-xr-x 1 ij staff 42 19 Jan 2014 trustdb.gpg ->
/Volumes/Home Directory/.gnupg/trustdb.gpg
Problem is: when the remote volume is disconnected, the pubring.gpg is unavailable, although the remote volume might reappear later again.
It would be great if there would be a config option (maybe via
default write) to enable a mode with GPGtools to support remote
filesystems. With that option GPGtools should:
- check whether remote filesystem is available - if not, remount
the remote filesystem: - check if above symlinks are valid and
accessible - if not, create the necessary symlinks
If course there are many other ways how to deal securely with keys on mobile devices like usb crypto sticks, subkeys or such, but using a remote filesystem securely via VPN works best for me at least.
Greetings!
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1 Posted by Mento on 02 Feb, 2015 09:45 PM
Hi!
Currently we don't support this directly.
I would suggest you to have a look in the gpg2 manual page.
The options keyring, no-default-keyring, secret-keyring, primary-keyring and trustdb-name could be interesting for you.
Regards, Mento
Mento closed this discussion on 30 Apr, 2015 12:23 PM.