4.2.1 How to change the configuration

These options are used to change the configuration and are usually found in the option file.

--options file

Reads configuration from file instead of from the default per-user configuration file. The default configuration file is named gpgsm.conf and expected in the .gnupg directory directly below the home directory of the user.

--homedir dir

Set the name of the home directory to dir. If this option is not used, the home directory defaults to ~/.gnupg. It is only recognized when given on the command line. It also overrides any home directory stated through the environment variable GNUPGHOME or (on W32 systems) by means of the Registry entry HKCU\Software\GNU\GnuPG:HomeDir.

-v

--verbose

Outputs additional information while running. You can increase the verbosity by giving several verbose commands to gpgsm, such as ‘-vv’.

--policy-file filename

Change the default name of the policy file to filename.

--agent-program file

Specify an agent program to be used for secret key operations. The default value is the /usr/local/bin/gpg-agent. This is only used as a fallback when the environment variable GPG_AGENT_INFO is not set or a running agent cannot be connected.

--dirmngr-program file

Specify a dirmngr program to be used for CRL checks. The default value is /usr/sbin/dirmngr. This is only used as a fallback when the environment variable DIRMNGR_INFO is not set or a running dirmngr cannot be connected.

--prefer-system-dirmngr

If a system wide dirmngr is running in daemon mode, first try to connect to this one. Fallback to a pipe based server if this does not work. Under Windows this option is ignored because the system dirmngr is always used.

--disable-dirmngr

Entirely disable the use of the Dirmngr.

--no-secmem-warning

Do not print a warning when the so called "secure memory" cannot be used.

--log-file file

When running in server mode, append all logging output to file.