ADDGNUPGHOME(8)

🎀 addgnupghome(8) — GNU Privacy Guard 2.4 🎀

okay so bestie, this manual page is coming at you straight from GNU Privacy Guard 2.4, and it’s literally about making .gnupg home directories happen 💅✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

addgnupghome — Create .gnupg home directories 🫶

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

addgnupghome account_1 account_2...account_n

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

Picture this: GnuPG is installed on a system that already has user accounts. Sometimes you lowkey need to populate the GnuPG home directory with existing files — and what people usually want is a trustlist.txt plus a keybox with some initial certificates. This script is the main character that helps make it happen: it copies all files from /etc/skel/.gnupg into the home directories of the accounts you list on the command line. And it takes care not to overwrite existing GnuPG home directories. Periodt. 🙈

addgnupghome is invoked by root as:

addgnupghome account1 account2 ... accountn

bestie note: it’s a root move, and it is genuinely careful about not stomping on existing GnuPG home directories — respect the vibe check 🫶🔥

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💖 GnuPG 2.4.9 · 2025-02-19 · ADDGNUPGHOME(8) — that’s the source/version and date realness, bestie, slay ✨👑