Hello Frederick, I'm not the pen you wrote to, but I think I can help with your problem regarding of the .gnupg-directory.
If you enable Enigmail's "Expert Settings" according to [1], you can pass additional parameters to GnuPG. With a combination of some parameters, you can change the location of the files GnuPG uses: --no-default-keyring --keyring" "./pubring.gpg --secret-keyring ./secring.gpg --trustdb-name ./trustdb.gpg Please refer to the manpage of GnuPG for more informations about these parameters. [1]: http://enigmail.mozdev.org/documentation/advanced.php.html Kind regards, Moritz Ulrich -- Moritz Ulrich https://profiles.google.com/ulrich.moritz Am Freitag, 27. Mai 2011 um 22:56 schrieb SecureLaptop.org Information: > Dear Ben: > > Sorry for the delay in responding. I had some other priorities... > > I got back after it today and am very, very close. The GnuPG 1.4.x version > works well with the Portable Thunderbird on a USB thumb drive, just like you > recommended. I put the /usr/local/* structure that the installer makes into a > folder on the USB thumb drive. It is easy enough to override the location of > the gnupg executable to the USB drive location. > > Then I imported two private keys using the Key Management facility of > Enigmail for Thunderbird on the USB drive. (The local machine I was using > does not have a copy of Thunderbird. It only exists on the USB thumb drive.) > What I noticed is that the .gnupg folder was then created on the local > machine for the user I was logged in with. I copied it to the USB thumb drive > and deleted it from the local machine. Yet, Enigmail cannot "see" the copy of > .gnupg that has the key ring on the USB thumb drive. > > Do you know of a setting that I can use to override where Enigmail will look > for the .gnupg directory that has the key ring? It is not on the Expert > settings. > > This is possibly the last hurdle to running MacGPG on a USB drive! Thanks in > advance for any direction you can give me. > > Best Regards, > > Frederick - Security Services Executive > > ---------------- > > SECURE LAPTOP SERVICE > SPB 6250 > Industriestrasse 31 > A-6923 Lauterach > Austria > > tel +43 7208 80267 > > _______________________________________________ > gpgtools-users mailing list > gpgtools-users@lists.gpgtools.org (mailto:gpgtools-users@lists.gpgtools.org) > FAQ: http://www.gpgtools.org/faq.html > Changes: http://lists.gpgtools.org/mailman/listinfo/gpgtools-users > Unsubscribe: > http://lists.gpgtools.org/mailman/options/gpgtools-users/ulrich.mor...@googlemail.com?unsub=Unsubscribe&unsubconfirm=1 > > This email sent to: ulrich.mor...@googlemail.com > (mailto:ulrich.mor...@googlemail.com) _______________________________________________ gpgtools-users mailing list gpgtools-users@lists.gpgtools.org FAQ: http://www.gpgtools.org/faq.html Changes: http://lists.gpgtools.org/mailman/listinfo/gpgtools-users Unsubscribe: http://lists.gpgtools.org/mailman/options/gpgtools-users/arch...@mail-archive.com?unsub=Unsubscribe&unsubconfirm=1 This email sent to: arch...@mail-archive.com
