Unfortunately, if ~/.gnupg is owned by root, Seahorse will not be able to chown it back:
cer...@xango2:~$ ls -l test total 0 cer...@xango2:~$ chmod 700 test cer...@xango2:~$ sudo chown root:root test [sudo] password for cerdea: cer...@xango2:~$ ls -la test ls: cannot open directory test: Permission denied cer...@xango2:~$ chown cerdea:cerdea test chown: changing ownership of `test': Operation not permitted cer...@xango2:~$ ls -l | grep test drwx------ 2 root root 4096 2010-04-30 17:51 test cer...@xango2:~$ In other words: in this case, the only thing any programme can do is warn you. -- Seahorse won't generate a key when .gnupg directory owned by root, only gives unhelpful "General error" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/321287 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
