[Gpg4win-users-en] Is there a way to operate Gpg via command line portably from a USB stick

[L]

I see. Having re-installed GnuPG on my stick and set the path in Command
Prompt, the path at least now shows. It was asking for a bin location, a
folder included in GnuPG. To test it properly I'd want to uninstall all
trace of Gpg on the system so it only has the stick available, but
hopefully that will work.
Thanks for the assistance.

On 7/10/2015 7:47 PM, Lawrence Berlinski wrote:
> No, I don't mean that.
>
> In System Properties, in the Advanced tab There's a System Variable
> called "Path" it identifies the paths to programs and services that
> need to be made available when a program invoked on a command line is
> used.
>
> Go to a DOS prompt, and type "PATH" and you will see the current
> settings.
>
> Larry
>
> On 7/8/2015 3:28 PM, L wrote:
>> If by path you mean specifying the file path to the file to be
>> encrypted, yes, I have specified the path to the file. But the file to
>> be encrypted/decrypted/whatever should technically be able to be
>> anywhere on the system (which is normally why you'd specify the entire
>> path - otherwise you just navigate to the file's folder and execute gpg
>> commands. The problem is running Gpg commands at all; though Gpg is on
>> the USB stick, accessed by Thunderbird/Enigmail, running a terminal on
>> the F: drive (I use Console Portable to do this) does not recognise Gpg
>> commands, though I can navigate to its folder and run gpg2.exe ("go
>> ahead and write your message" is all it says).
>> If you mean something else, on the other hand, please specify.
>>
>> On 7/8/2015 10:25 AM, Lawrence Berlinski wrote:
>>>
>>> Have you added the USB stick’s drive and GPG folder address to your
>>> PATH?
>>>
>>> Larry
>>>
>>> *From:*Gpg4win-users-en
>>> [mailto:gpg4win-users-en-bounces at wald.intevation.org] *On Behalf Of *L
>>> *Sent:* Wednesday, July 08, 2015 12:12 PM
>>> *To:* gpg4win-users-en at wald.intevation.org
>>> *Subject:* [Gpg4win-users-en] Is there a way to operate Gpg via
>>> command line portably from a USB stick
>>>
>>> Is there a way to use Gpg via windows command line terminal with Gpg
>>> installed on USB stick? No attempt I have made to do this, with Gpg
>>> installed on USB stick and accessible to Thunderbird/Enigmail, has
>>> worked. At best I can nevigate to the Gpg folder, and activate its
>>> .exe, but entering Gpg commands produces only an unknown command
>>> response.
>>>
>>> On 7/7/2015 9:10 AM, Andre Heinecke wrote:
>>> > Hi,
>>>
>>>       >
>>>
>>>       > On Tuesday, July 07, 2015 03:52:51 PM Kent Hurtig wrote:
>>>
>>>       >> I have created a batch job that encrypts a file using
>>>
>>>       GnuPG software.  When
>>>
>>>       >> I run the batch file from the server where the file
>>>
>>>       resides, it runs
>>>
>>>       >> successfully and encrypts the file.  When I run the batch
>>>
>>>       job through
>>>
>>>       >> Oracle Enterprise Manager(the software that we schedule
>>>
>>>       our batch jobs
>>>
>>>       >> through), the task which encrypts the file using gpg
>>>
>>>       encounters several
>>>
>>>       >> issues.  I have attached the output from this task.
>>>
>>>       >
>>>
>>>       > Not serveral issues, Just one:
>>>
>>>       > gpg: E:\\Test\\ECSI_Perkins_Loan_Test\\TESTbldpromIG.csv:
>>>
>>>       encryption failed:
>>>
>>>       > No public key
>>>
>>>       >
>>>
>>>       >> I should mention that
>>>
>>>       >> I previously had the same issue on our old "Media"
>>>
>>>       windows server 2003.  To
>>>
>>>       >> correct the issue, I changed the gpg command to be more
>>>
>>>       verbose and saw
>>>
>>>       >> that the process was being ran as the default user and
>>>
>>>       not as user
>>>
>>>       >> aunt_bee.    I copied the gpg.conf, pubring.gpg,
>>>
>>>       secring.gpg, trustdb.gpg
>>>
>>>       >> and trust.gpg.lock from C:\Documents and
>>>
>>>       Settings\aunt_bee\Application
>>>
>>>       >> Data\gunpg to C:\Documents and Settings\Default
>>>
>>>       User\Application Data\gnupg
>>>
>>>       >> on Media, reran the Oracle Enterprise Manager job and it
>>>
>>>       finished
>>>
>>>       >> successfully.
>>>
>>>       >
>>>
>>>       > For encryption gnupg needs to find the public key of the
>>>
>>>       recipient. This key is
>>>
>>>       > contained in pubring.gpg.
>>>
>>>       >
>>>
>>>       > GnuPG looks for this file by default in %APPDATA%\gnupg
>>>
>>>       >
>>>
>>>       > This apperantly expands in your environment to:
>>>
>>>       >
>>>
>>> C:/Windows/system32/config/systemprofile/AppData/Roaming/gnupg
>>>
>>>       >
>>>
>>>       > To change this you can add --homedir
>>>
>>>       <path_to_gnupg_homedir> and gnupg will
>>>
>>>       > then look in that directory for the keyring.
>>>
>>>       >
>>>
>>>       > For example:
>>>
>>>       > -> Create a directory c:\gnupg
>>>
>>>       > -> Copy the pubring.gpg (and gpg.conf if you have options
>>>
>>>       in there) into that
>>>
>>>       > directory.
>>>
>>>       > -> extend your command to include --homedir c:\gnupg in
>>>
>>>       the arguments.
>>>
>>>       >
>>>
>>>       > Now as long as that Batch user has read access to c:\gnupg
>>>
>>>       this should work.
>>>
>>>       >
>>>
>>>       > Regards,
>>>
>>>       > Andre
>>>
>>>       >
>>>
>>>       >
>>>
>>>       >
>>>
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