Re: [PLUG] Migrating GnuPG data

[Walt Mankowski <waltman@pobox.com>]

On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 08:54:53PM -0500, Michael F. Robbins wrote:
> Sorry about the HTML in my last message.  Still hadn't set up Evolution
> completely.
> 
> Since I installed Debian, I lost my GPG keyrings/secret key/who knows
> what else.  I have my old home dir with the following files in
> ~/.gnupg/: options pubring.gpg random_seed secring.gpg trustdb.gpg.
> 
> AFAIK, the old one was GPG version 1.0.6, and so is the new one.  So how
> do I import this data?   Can I just copy the files or is there some
> fancy way?

Copying the files is all you need to do.  Make sure the permissions
are set the same on the old and new files, and on ~/.gnupg/

Something like

cp -va /old/home/dir/.gnupg ~

should be all you need to do.

Walt

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