I think I've got most every thing working except I'm not able to set the home dir. The result is the import tries to create /root/.gnupg...which fails due to perms (as it should).
If this were a straight expect script, it would look like:

set home "/home/username"
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If I were doing this manually, it would look something like this:

su - <user>
gpg --import ./.pgp/pubring.pkr
(gpg asks if I'm sure (y/n), I say, "y")
(gpg then asks for a passphrase and I enter it).
then ~/.gnupg is created by gpg for <user>
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Here is the relevant bit of code:

my $exp = new Expect;

$exp->spawn("sudo -u $user gpg --import $home/.pgp/secring.skr");

$exp->send("set home $home\n"); #THS DOESN'T WORK...just an example of
+ something i tried

$exp->expect(5, [qr'\(y/N\)\s*' , sub {my $exph = shift; print $exph "
+y\r" ;exp_continue; }],

                  [qr'passphrase:\s*' , sub {my $exph = shift; print $
+exph "$passphrase";exp_continue; }],

                  [EOF => sub {die "Error: Could not login!\n"; }],

                  [timeout => sub {die "Error: Could not login!\n"; }]
+,

                  '-re', '\$');



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I'm not sure if doing sudo is the right approach or not....any suggestions much appreciated.