Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 17:39:56 +0100 From: John Russell <jr@paranoia.demon.nl> To: youlgok@attglobal.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [Q] gpg message Message-ID: <200002271639.RAA01239@gazelle.bigmama.xx> In-Reply-To: <38B9316A.FF5B5BDA@attglobal.net>
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On Sun, 27 Feb 2000 09:15:06 -0500 Youlgok wrote the following about "[Q] gpg
message "
> What does this mean? I got this message when I run GnuPG.
>
> gpg: Warning: using insecure memory!
man 1 gpg shows:
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.
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