Bob Razler on Sat, 5 Jan 2002 12:40:15 +0100


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RE: [PLUG] Migrating GnuPG data


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Is there a way to import your private key from a windows PC onto a
Linux PC?  Clearly I can export it to a floppy or a network share
(not very bright, but it's a secure home network).  Would that key be
directly importable to the Linux PC?

Bob


- -----Original Message-----
From: Walt Mankowski [mailto:waltman@pobox.com] 
Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 9:45 PM
To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
Subject: Re: [PLUG] Migrating GnuPG data

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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