GPGME + Sylpheed

Bryan Cassidy b_cassidy at bellsouth.net
Sat Nov 15 06:14:11 PST 2003


Kinda new to this. Had to remove the ~/.gnupg dir and re-run gpg
--gen-key as 'user' and it works fine now as you can see. Thanks for the
response though. I appreciate it.

On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 09:04:37 -0600
Bryan Cassidy <b_cassidy at bellsouth.net> wrote:

> This is what I get when I run 'gpg --gen-key' as 'user'
> 
> gpg: no writable public keyring found: eof
> Key generation failed: eof
> gpg: note: random_seed file not updated
> 
> 
> On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 08:46:27 -0500
> Ed Budd <ebudd at grokking.org> wrote:
> 
> > Uh, someone correct me if I'm wrong but I think you have to generate
> > your key AS the user you want to use it under. Looks like maybe you
> > created a gpg key for ROOT, not Bryan Cassidy.
> > 
> > gpg --list-keys
> > 
> > ...should help clarify/confirm this.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 18:45:51 -0600
> > Bryan Cassidy <b_cassidy at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> > 
> > > I used FreeBSD 4.8 without any problems with GPGME + Sylpheed.
> > > This last time using 4.8 I didn't install/configure gpgme +
> > > sylpheed but I did a update to 4.9 and set this up but I get an
> > > error in Sylpheed saying"Error could not find any key associated
> > > with currently selected key id'Bryan Cassidy'. Yes, I ran gpg
> > > --gen-key as root and set it up. I have 
> > > 
> > > Sign Message by default
> > > 
> > > Use clear text signature
> > > 
> > > Specify key manually
> > >  User or key ID: Bryan Cassidy
> > > 
> > > Set in Privacy. I tried unchecking Use clear text signature and
> > > just Sign message by default and vice versa.
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