trouble running GPG 1.0.6 on Mandrake 8.1

Lee Roberts n0sq@actcom.net
Tue Dec 25 20:54:01 2001


Even though I set gpg as SUID I can't get it to work with my mail
programs. Below are the permission settings for the various files. At
least one of them is set wrong. BTW, I can execute GPG as root but not
as a user.What have I done wrong? It worked fine under Mandrake 7.2.

-rwsrws---    1 root     root       614460 Jul 13 12:27 /usr/bin/gpg*

ls -l /home/n0sq/.gnupg
total 44
-rw-rw-r--    1 n0sq     root         4342 Dec 24 22:30 options
-rw-rw-r--    1 n0sq     root        10598 Dec 23 20:24 pubring.gpg
-rw-rw-r--    1 n0sq     root         9065 Dec 23 20:24 pubring.gpg~
-rw-------    1 n0sq     root         1198 Dec 23 20:22 secring.gpg
-rw-rw-r--    1 n0sq     root         4840 Dec 23 20:24 trustdb.gpg

ls -l /root/.gnupg
total 33
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root            0 Dec 21 14:39 options
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        12611 Dec 23 20:25 pubring.gpg
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        11078 Dec 23 20:25 pubring.gpg~
-rw-------    1 root     root         1198 Dec 23 20:25 secring.gpg
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         5320 Dec 23 20:25 trustdb.gpg
-rw-rw-r--    1 root     root            0 Dec 24 22:43 trustedkeys.gpg