How to use same personal key across multiple computers?

**JamesTheAwesomeDude** · December 24th, 2012

I have an old computer that I fixed up, and I'd like to use it for my coding (right now, I'm working on debianizing the games at stabyourself.net. Don't worry; the liscense allows it!)

I have already built a few on my main computer, and I'd like to sort of migrate my packaging to the old computer. Unfortunately, I would have to generate another key for the second computer, and I'd prefer not to do that. I know that you can import someone else's key, sort of as a "recognized person," but how do I import a key as one of MY keys? (P.S., I do have the secret password thingy. That's how I've been signing the packages, after all.)

**Bachstelze** · December 24th, 2012

Any reason why you can't just do scp -r .gnupg targethost:?

**JamesTheAwesomeDude** · December 29th, 2012

Originally Posted by Bachstelze

Any reason why you can't just do scp -r .gnupg targethost:?

Lol, probably because I've never heard of that before.

So... I execute that command on the machine I've already built stuff on? Do I need to export my keyfile first or something like that?

**Bachstelze** · December 31st, 2012

Normally no, copying .gnupg is the only thing that's needed, executing gpg on the other host will pick up the keys as normal.

**JamesTheAwesomeDude** · January 8th, 2013

Okay... where do I find this file?

Also, do I just type scp -r .gnupg targethost, then upload some file to the other computer, or do I need to do
scp -r /home/james/.pgp/pgp.gnupgp 192.168.2.3
...or something like that?