rocko wrote: > When i try to make a new key i get the following error: > gpg: no writable public keyring found: eof > Key generation failed: eof > I'm using Ubuntu 7.04 and logged on as regular user. > I've generated a key before but i used: sudo gpg --gen-key > that works fine. > I just can't seem to do it as regular user.
I'd guess that the ownership/permissions on your ~/.gnupg dir and/or keyring files are not correct. Check that you own the directory and the files in ~/.gnupg using "ls -la ~/.gnupg" (as a regular user). It should look something like this: $ ls -la .gnupg/ total 88K drwx------ 2 user user 4.0K Apr 3 15:18 . drwx------ 43 user user 4.0K Jun 3 20:34 .. -rw------- 1 user user 9.0K Dec 8 15:51 gpg.conf -rw------- 1 user user 11K Dec 8 16:02 pubring.gpg -rw------- 1 user user 9.7K Dec 8 15:56 pubring.gpg~ -rw------- 1 user user 600 Dec 8 15:57 random_seed -rw------- 1 user user 1.3K Dec 8 15:52 secring.gpg -rw------- 1 user user 1.3K Dec 8 15:56 trustdb.gpg -- Todd OpenPGP -> KeyID: 0xBEAF0CE3 | URL: www.pobox.com/~tmz/pgp ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Subtlety is the art of saying what you think and getting out of the way before it is understood. -- Anonymous
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