[Gllug] Kmail GnuPG and Mandrake 9.0

[David Pashley]

Mark Preston said, and I quote:
> Re:-
> "Go down the to security section and move the OpenGPG tab and tell kmail
> that you are using gpg. You will then be able to choose your key."
> 
> --=20
> David Pashley
> 
> Hi David,
> Thanks for the reply.
> Unfortunately I have already done this and still get a greyed out box.
> 
> Here is the output from my current .gnupg folder
> 
> -rw-rw-r--    1 mark     mark         1367 Dec 29 21:28 MarkPreston.asc
> -rw-r--r--    1 mark     mark          326 Dec 29 21:27 
> MarkPrestonRevokeKey.asc
> -rw-rw-r--    1 mark     mark         1942 Dec 29 21:28 
> MarkPrestonSecretKey.asc
> -rw-r--r--    1 mark     mark         1899 Dec 29 21:28 Mike Bostock.asc
> -rw-rw-r--    1 mark     mark         4348 Mar 15 22:55 options
> -rw-r--r--    1 mark     mark         3103 Mar 16 10:29 pubring.gpg
> -rw-rw-r--    1 mark     mark          600 Dec 29 21:23 random_seed
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 mark     mark         1396 Dec 29 21:23 
> rjonespgp-public-key.txt*
> -rw-rw-r--    1 mark     mark          107 Dec 29 21:23 secring.gpg
> -rw-rw-r--    1 mark     mark         1280 Mar 16 10:00 trustdb.gpg
> 
> According to the output from gpg --edit-key "Mark Preston"
> I have some unsafe permissions
> gpg: Warning: unsafe permissions on file "/home/mark/.gnupg/options"
> gpg: Warning: unsafe permissions on file "/home/mark/.gnupg/random_seed"
> gpg: Warning: unsafe permissions on file "/home/mark/.gnupg/secring.gpg"
> gpg: Warning: unsafe permissions on file "/home/mark/.gnupg/pubring.gpg"
> gpg: Warning: unsafe permissions on file "/home/mark/.gnupg/trustdb.gpg"

I would fix these asap regardless.
> 
> pub 1024D/356223C7 created 2002-04-27 expires: never trust u/u
> pub 1024g/8B3CB5CD created 2002-04-27 expires: never
> but these shouldn't affect Kmail and GnuPG.
> (I left the home directory in place when I upgraded, and I feel this may 
> have something to do with why it's not working)
> Regards,
> Mark
> 
> 

-- 
David Pashley
david at davidpashley.com
Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione.
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