Re: [Macgpg-users] Can't import public keys - "no such file or directory."

[Charly A. <sha...@ma...>]

abe sorge wrote the following on 3/9/11 12:40 PM:
> Hi everyone.
Hi Abe, welcome.

> I have joesmith.gpg on my desktop, a public key that I copied into a
> text file and changed the file extension. I go to terminal and type:
> 
>        gpg --import joesmith.gpg
> 
>        gpg: can't open `joesmith.gpg': No such file or directory

You have to indicate the path to the file but:
- the extension might better be .asc
- you have to save the file with Unix line breaks (you can use either
BBEdit lite or TextWrangler both are freeware)

In Terminal, after gpg --import [space] please drag and drop the icon of
your joesmith file, Terminal will automatically write the path.

> 
> So, where should I put this file where gpg can find it? Additionally, I
> haven't been able to even find my own keypairs that I've generated -
> where are they stored by default? No problems exporting, just importing.

Your key rings (public and secret) should have been stored, by default
at your user location:
~/.gnupg

> Apparently, Keychain Access for OS X 10.4 is discontinued and I haven't
> been able to find it anywhere.

Are you running MacOS 10.4?

> That's probably the ideal solutions to my
> problem but perhaps there's an easy fix in terminal.

See above, but you could use the current GPG Keychain Access 0.8 posted
by GPGTools.org.

Please visit the site <http://www.gpgtools.org/>, read carefully, follow
the links, and document yourself before you make actual installations.


> Command line noob
> by the way - hopefully I'm missing something really easy here.


Don't give up the Command Line.

> Thanks for any help you might be able to offer.

I hope the above helps.

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Charly
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