PGP & GPG

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In the case of GnuPG, using setuid root makes a lot of

sense. To change your installed GnuPG program to be setuid

root, run the following:

# chown root /usr/local/bin/gpg*

# chgrp wheel /usr/local/bin/gpg*

# chmod 4755 /usr/local/bin/gpg*

If you don’t have privilege to do this on your system, talk to

your systems administrator. (And stop using GnuPG on a sys-

tem you don’t control!)

If you don’t want to install gpg as a setuid root program,

you can at least silence the warning by adding the option no-

secmem-warning

to your gpg.conf file. It doesn’t eliminate the

“memory writing to disk problem,” but at least GnuPG will stop

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