From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 27 8:47:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7231037B66F for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2000 08:47:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jr@paranoia.demon.nl) Received: from [212.238.106.171] (helo=pig.bigmama.xx) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 12P6qb-000ORt-00; Sun, 27 Feb 2000 16:47:09 +0000 Received: from gazelle.bigmama.xx (gazelle.bigmama.xx [192.168.118.2]) by pig.bigmama.xx (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA08099; Sun, 27 Feb 2000 17:41:17 +0100 Received: from gazelle.bigmama.xx (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gazelle.bigmama.xx (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA01239; Sun, 27 Feb 2000 17:39:56 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <200002271639.RAA01239@gazelle.bigmama.xx> X-Mailer: Shotgun To: youlgok@attglobal.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [Q] gpg message In-reply-to: <38B9316A.FF5B5BDA@attglobal.net> X-Comment: Original message from Youlgok dated Sun, 27 Feb 2000 09:15:06 -0500. X-image-url: http://www.paranoia.demon.nl/jrsm.gif X-pgp-key: http://keys.pgp.com:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x9EF951A5 X-url: http://www.paranoia.demon.nl Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 17:39:56 +0100 From: John Russell Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message