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GPG cannot be used on 'limited rights' Windows systems like most company systems
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Description

Release: gnu pg 1.2.5

Environment

Windows XP

Description

Most companies provide 'limited rights' systems to their employees. E.g. no write access to (parts of) the C: drive and no access to change the registry. Unfortunately gnupg has it's standard directoy on C:\gpg and when you want to change this, you need to do it with a registry change. So both are not possible making gpg not usable on 'limited' systems.

Fix

gpg could be changed to read a config or ini file which should be located in the same directory as where gpg is installed. This ini file can then provide the alternative path to c:\gpg . This will make gpg more open and usable on more systems.

Event Timeline

Not a bug. Proper use of the registry entries will allow to
install it on a multi-user system.

This is an installer issue; however a installer is not part
of gnupg ;-)