gpg was working on my nobody user account but is not working now. i dont know whats happen. It works when i am logged in as the root user but i need it working for a web based form using the nobody account.

Whenever i try to run a gpg comand like gpg --list-keys its comes back with

gpg: can't open `/tmp/.gnupg/pubring.gpg'
gpg: keydb_search_first failed: file open error

also when i try to import a key:

gpg: can't open `/tmp/.gnupg/pubring.gpg'
gpg: keydb_get_keyblock failed: eof
gpg: no writable keyring found: eof
gpg: error reading `shop.asc': general error
gpg: import from `shop.asc' failed: general error
gpg: Total number processed: 0

but the files are there.

[nobody@srv1 .gnupg]$ ls
pubring.gpg random_seed secring.gpg

Is there any way to delete the .gnupg folder and create a new one? i am very confussed about what has happened.

thank you for any help

Does user nobody have read permissions on the /tmp/.gnupg/pubring.gpg file (0444 or -r--r--r--)?

Does "nobody" have a key? If not you will have to generate one (check out gpg --help).

Hi,

I cant create a key it comes up with

no writable public keyring found: eof

heres what i get when i see the permissions

[nobody@srv1 ~]$ ls -l .gnupg
total 4
-rw------- 1 apache apache 0 Mar 23 10:35 pubring.gpg
-rw------- 1 nobody nogroup 600 Mar 27 13:29 random_seed
-rw------- 1 apache apache 0 Mar 23 10:35 secring.gpg

i am really new to linux, doe these permission look right? if not what should i change them to?

thanks

i think i have solved it thank you

ok its still not working, i can run the php script when in the termial as user nobody, but when i run the php from the web it comes back with permission errors

Warning: fopen(/tmp/7618ad6b9d154204f8cc84dedbf7862danca.asc): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /srv/web/gpg/working5.php on line 28

Warning: filesize(): Stat failed for /tmp/7618ad6b9d154204f8cc84dedbf7862danca.asc (errno=2 - No such file or directory) in /srv/web/gpg/working5.php on line 30

Warning: fread(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /srv/web/gpg/working5.php on line 30

Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /srv/web/gpg/working5.php on line 32

Warning: unlink(/tmp/7618ad6b9d154204f8cc84dedbf7862danca.asc): No such file or directory in /srv/web/gpg/working5.php on line 36

so it can right to the tmp folder, if tried chomd the files but it hasent worked. anybody any ideas

thank you

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gpg should create keys automatically when they are not existent. Try this:

$gpg --gen-key

Then you'll be guided through the process. The data is saved in the users home directory under ~/.gnupg/something. Notice the home part. For some reason your gpg looked for the key in /tmp. That shouldn't be. So make sure the user has a writeale home directory.