I wasn't exactly methodical in my approach to resolve the issue but I "think" what resolved my issue preventing me from generating keys was following Stephan's suggestion of adding to .bashrc, which I had done and was still getting the issue but tonight I added the lines to .bashrc of root.
Or it could have been Peter's suggestion of rm trustdb.gpg. Anyhow I have successfully generated pub and secret key. I am getting a gui pop up requesting I enter a passphrase when generating a key which was not my initial goal but I'm glad to have something working than nothing. I have a feeling I'm not out of the woods quite yet but that's ok. I appreciate you guys helping me work through this gpg software. I still have lots of questions about what kind of questions I should have but that will come. David _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
