Error on initial call under Darwin

[Werner Koch]

On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 11:06:06 +0200, Alexander Nouak said:

> gpg: failed to create temporary file
> `/Users/<user>/.gnupg/.#lk0x5003f0.<machine>.<domain>.1882':
> Permission denied
> gpg: keyblock resource `/Users/<user>/.gnupg/secring.gpg': Allgemeiner
> Fehler

Check the permissions on the .gnupg directory. Are you able to do a  

touch /Users/<user>/.gnupg/dummy-file

?