Thanks to you and Robert for getting back to me. However this unfortunately didn't solve the problem. I ran:
chown alastair:alastair ~/.gnupg/ and chown alastair:alastair ~/.gnupg/* Then I tried root:alastair and alastair:root but still no go. Any other ideas? In the meantime, I'll try and chown each file in ~/.gnupg individually and see if that changes anything. Incidentally, when I chown'ed everything in the folder, gnupg gave a warning when I ran it in the terminal: WARNING: unsafe ownership on configuration file `/home/alastair/.gnupg/gpg.conf' Thanks in advance for helping me solve this. Best, Alastair Key: E2F6 3C0F 21BB 5DEB 32BF AC52 CA72 33EC 302F 21A8 Reid Thompson wrote: > On 3/6/2012 8:03 PM, Alastair Langwell wrote: >> Hi folks, >> >> I wonder if any of you can help with this problem >> (http://www.mozilla-enigmail.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=838&p=3409) >> on Enigmail? I'd appreciate it and promise I'll post any solutions into >> that forum thread! >> >> Many thanks in advance, >> >> Alastair Langwell >> Key: E2F6 3C0F 21BB 5DEB 32BF AC52 CA72 33EC 302F 21A8 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Gnupg-users mailing list >> Gnupg-users@gnupg.org >> http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users > |~/.gnupg/ and all the files it contains are owned by root -- they > should be owned by you > > chown the directory and it's contents to be you and your primary group > | _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
