installing enigmail created ~/.gnupg that was owned by root

[Martin Nordholts]

Binary package hint: enigmail

I run Ubuntu 7.10, and run Thunderbird.

After I installed enigmail with

  sudo apt-get install enigmail

and tried to use OpenPGP in Thunderbird, I got "no access"-errors. It turned out that

  ls -la ~

showed

  drwx------ 2 root root 4096 2007-08-10 23:28 .gnupg

so the fix was simply to do

  sudo chown -R $USER:$USER .gnupg

after enigmail was installed.

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

Is this still reproducible and with what versions of thunderbird, enigmail did you see this with. I am not able to reproduce this on gutsy.

[Martin Nordholts (enselic)]

Hmm I also fail to reproduce this. I must have created ~/.gnupg prior to using enigmail. I don't know how, and espeically not why it had the permissions it had, but anyway the cause of it appearently has nothing to do with the enigmail install script. I should have tried to reproduce this before submitting a bug...

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

enigmail definitly doesn't run gpg during install. maybe the file did exist before, but you didn't recognize?