unable to execute program `gpgkeys_hkp': Permission denied

David Shaw dshaw at jabberwocky.com
Sat Feb 12 06:07:48 CET 2005


On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 07:52:20AM +0000, Adam Funk wrote:
> On Friday 11 February 2005 00:21, gnupg-users-request at gnupg.org wrote:
> > > Hmm.  I found all those files in /usr/local/libexec/gnupg/ on my
> > > system, but identified a related problem: the /usr/local/libexec
> > > and /usr/local/libexec/gnupg directories were not world-executable.
> > > "chmod a+x /usr/local/libexec /usr/local/libexec/gnupg" fixed it.
> > >  Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.
> > >
> > > Is this a bug in the install?
> >
> > GnuPG doesn't actually do the install.  Rather, automake does.  It
> > seems to take your umask into account when doing it through.  What is
> > your umask?
> 
> I did the "./configure" and "make" with 0077, then "su", then "make 
> install" with 0022.

That looks sane to me.  I don't know.  I've never seen this particular
problem before.  If you do the install over again, does the same thing
happen?

David



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