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SENDPGPPASS(1)         DragonFly General Commands Manual        SENDPGPPASS(1)

NAME

sendpgppass - send PGP passphrase to PGPdaemon

SYNOPSIS

sendpgppass [ -wipe ]

DESCRIPTION

The sendpgppass programme will query the user for their PGP passphrase and will transmit that and the users' secret keyring to PGPdaemon. PGPdaemon is part of the PGPsendmail/Unix Suite.

OPTIONS

-wipe This option will cause the secret keyring file to be overwritten with zeros and then removed, after the passphrase and secret keyring have been transmitted to PGPdaemon.

FILES

$PGPPATH/PGPdaemon.config the users' configuration file $PGPPATH/secring.pgp the users' secret keyring file pgpsendmail/doc/README.PGPdaemon distribution README (has more info.)

SEE ALSO

sendmail(8), pgp(1), pgpsendmail(8), pgpdaemon(1), pgppipe(1)

AUTHOR

Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)

AVAILABILITY

The PGPsendmail/Unix Suite is available for anonymous ftp from: ftp.atnf.csiro.au:pub/people/rgooch ftp.dhp.com:pub/crypto/pgp/PGPsendmail ftp.ox.ac.uk:pub/crypto/pgp/utils linux.nrao.edu:pub/src/pgp/PGPsendmail PGPsendmail/Unix Suite 8 Dec 1994 SENDPGPPASS(1)

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