[geeks] GnuPG help

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Sat Mar 9 03:17:18 CST 2002


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- ----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Bradford" <mrbill at mrbill.net>
To: <geeks at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 4:21 PM
Subject: Re: [geeks] GnuPG help


> On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 10:12:07PM +0000, David Cantrell wrote:
> > BUGS
> >        On  many  systems  this  program  should  be  installed as
> >        setuid(root). This is  necessary  to  lock  memory  pages.
> >        Locking  memory  pages  prevents the operating system from
> >        writing memory pages to disk. If you get no  warning  mes-
> >        sage  about insecure memory your operating system supports
> >        locking without being root. The program drops root  privi-
> >        leges as soon as locked memory is allocated.
> 
> Bingo, that did it.  Anybody wanna send me some GPG/PGP-signed 
> stuff, so I can see if automatic key retreival works?
> 
> Bill
> 
> -- 
> Bill Bradford
> mrbill at mrbill.net
> Austin, TX
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