Invalid signatures in Evo2

[Paul Howarth]

On Sat, 2004-11-20 at 11:49 -0600, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:
> Thanks for your replies. Very helpful. Now that I look in my home
> directory, I find that there is no ~/.gnupg directory, and of course no
> gnupg.conf file to modify or lock.
> 
> When I click on that "Invalid signature" icon the Security Information
> popup box says:
> 
> Digital Signature
>      The signature of this message cannot be verified, it
>      may have been altered in transit.
>      gpg: failed to create temporary file `/home/doc/.gnupg/ \
>           .#lk0xf7005ac8.lioness.7077': No such file or directory
>      gpg: can't allocate lock for `/home/doc/.gnupg/pubring.gpg'
>      gpg: keyblock resource `/home/doc/.gnupg/pubring.gpg': general \
>           error
>      gpg: armor header: Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux)
>      gpg: Signature made Thu 18 Nov 2004 10:47:55 AM CST using DSA \
>           key ID B366A773
>      gpg: Can't check signature: public key not found
> Encryption
>      This message is not encrypted. Its content may be
>      viewed in transit across the Internet.
> 
> That's heavy stuff. By upgrading from FC1 to FC3, have I missed some
> sort of pre-config routine that should have been run after gnupg was
> installed?

No, if you want to set up gpg you need to do it yourself:

$ mkdir ~/.gnupg
$ chmod 600 ~/.gnupg
$ cp /usr/share/gnupg/options.skel ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf
$ gpg --gen-key

I'm sure that gnupg used to do the first three of these for you, but
having just tried it, it didn't work without having set up the ~/.gnupg
directory.

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>