pinentry problems

Daniel Kahn Gillmor dkg at fifthhorseman.net
Tue Apr 17 17:48:57 CEST 2018


On Tue 2018-04-17 11:11:22 +0200, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote:
> On 04/17/2018 10:52 AM, Paul H. Hentze wrote:
>> Actually those commands
>>>     find ~/.gnupg -type d -exec chown 0700 '{}' ';'
>>>     find ~/.gnupg -type f -exec chown 0600 '{}' ';'
>> didn't work.
>> The terminal responded: "chown: The owner of data XXX is going to be
>> changed. This is not allowed." and it did that with every file in that
>> folder.
>
> Seems like a mixup of chmod and chown there, although make sure the user
> is correct as well.

yep, sorry, that should have been "chmod", not "chown" -- my mistake!

     --dkg



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