gpg error

[Russell Coker]

On Sat, 16 Oct 2004 12:10, tioat <tioat at adelphia.net> wrote:
> I just did a clean install of fc3-t3 and when trying to gen a
> new key gpg aborted with this error:
>
> gpg: can't create `~/.gnupg/random_seed': No such file or directory
>
> After manually creating the ~/.gnupg directory it worked fine.
>
> Does this have anything to do with selinux?  Cuz I haven't read
> the book yet. ;)

If SE Linux prevents it then "dmesg" should show an AVC message related to it.

The SE Linux policy for gpg (which is only installed if you use the "strict" 
policy - not on a default install) allows creating the directory.

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