Thanks, John.
Sometime yesterday John Clizbe wrote ...
Post by John ClizbeEnigmail --> 'Debugging Enigmail' --> 'View Console'
Highlight the text in the console window. Ctrl-C to copy. Ctrl-V to paste.
Very useful.
<snip>
Post by John Clizbeof this identity to identify OpenPGP key' is selected.
Does this email address exist in an User ID on your key?
Yes, me.
Post by John ClizbeOn any
public-secret key pair?
Yep.
Post by John ClizbeI can't check as your key isn't on the key servers.
I thought I entered it on the default keyservers in Enigmail config.
Post by John ClizbeDoes 'gpg --list-secret-keys' list your key?
sec 1024D/DECAFBAD 2004-09-07
ssb 2048g/DEADBEEF 2004-09-07
Yes.
Post by John ClizbeIf your secret key is listed, does signing work if you switch to selecting
the key by key ID?
No
Post by John ClizbeOn the 'OpenPGP security' tab for this email account,
select the radio button for 'Use specific OpenPGP key ID' and enter the id
of your key with 0x (zero-X) prepended -- 0xDecafBad from the key above.
Did that, thanks.
Now mutt (with .muttrc configured for GnuPG from
http://codesorcery.net/mutt/mutt-gnupg-how)
gives me
'>gpg: skipped `0x4E553910': secret key not available
Post by John Clizbegpg: signing failed: secret key not available
Press any key to continue...'
Let's see... You said you were using PGP 6. How did you get your keys over
from PGP? Secret keys are usually not exported by default - only the
gpg --import secring.skr
gpg --import pubring.pkr
I think this is a misunderstanding.
I installed gpg following
http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/01/06/1557216&from=rss
from an earlier enigmail post, but apparently not getting it to work
initially I thought I may have inserted the wrong
executable path in Enigmail Preferences -> Basic so I changed it to pgp
and apt-installed it, getting the error messages
I previously wrote about. Someone told me they could co-exist so I
changed the executable path to /usr/bin/gpg and
found it works .. mostly.
Tux:/home/adam/.gnupg# ls
options pubring.gpg pubring.gpg~ secring.gpg trustdb.gpg
Post by John Clizbethen for each key /pair/, ('gpg --list-secret-keys' should have some
output now.)
It works, but I'm not sure how much is appropriate to show in a public
mailing list.
I followed the instructions below ..
Post by John Clizbeyou'll need to set the key pair to Ultimate trust, this is
gpg --edit-key 0xDecafBad trust
5 <-- '5' for ultimate
y <-- 'y'es REALLY do it
save <-- save changes and exit
but now find that if I have the Enigmail 'Sign Message' enabled I get
similar output to that of mutt, above.
"Send operation aborted.
Error - encryption command failed
gpg line command and output:
/usr/bin/gpg --charset utf8 --batch --no-tty --status-fd 2 --comment
'Using GnuPG with
Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org' --clearsign -u 0x4E553910
--passphrase-fd 0
--no-use-agent
gpg: skipped '0x4E553910': secret key not available
gpg: [stdin]: clearsign failed: secret key not available"
I have one question - is the symbol 'Ox*' 'oh' or 0 ?
I attach console output ..
Adam Bogacki,
***@paradise.net.nz
Initializing Enigmail service ...
EnigmailAgentPath=/usr/bin/gpg
enigmail> /usr/bin/gpg --charset utf8 --batch --no-tty --version
gpg (GnuPG) 1.2.5
Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions. See the file COPYING for details.
Home: ~/.gnupg
Supported algorithms:
Pubkey: RSA, RSA-E, RSA-S, ELG-E, DSA, ELG
Cipher: 3DES, CAST5, BLOWFISH, AES, AES192, AES256, TWOFISH
Hash: MD5, SHA1, RIPEMD160, SHA256
Compression: Uncompressed, ZIP, ZLIB, BZIP2
enigmail.js: CreateFileStream: Failed to create /tmp/enigerr.txt/enigcmd.txt
enigmail.js: WriteFileContents: Failed to write to /tmp/enigerr.txt/enigcmd.txt
enigmail.js: CreateFileStream: Failed to create /tmp/enigerr.txt/enigenv.txt
enigmail.js: WriteFileContents: Failed to write to /tmp/enigerr.txt/enigenv.txt
enigmail> /usr/bin/gpg --charset utf8 --batch --no-tty --status-fd 2 -d
enigmail.js: CreateFileStream: Failed to create /tmp/enigerr.txt/enigerr.txt
enigmail.js: WriteFileContents: Failed to write to /tmp/enigerr.txt/enigerr.txt
gpg: Signature made Tue Jan 18 09:55:21 2005 EST using DSA key ID FD4CDEB1
gpg: Good signature from "Donald D Henson <***@wepin.com>"
gpg: WARNING: This key is not certified with a trusted signature!
gpg: There is no indication that the signature belongs to the owner.
Primary key fingerprint: 153A BB1D 4989 D076 0423 29FD 1E0A 6DA6 FD4C DEB1
enigmail.js: CreateFileStream: Failed to create /tmp/enigerr.txt/eniginp.txt
enigmail.js: WriteFileContents: Failed to write to /tmp/enigerr.txt/eniginp.txt
enigmail.js: CreateFileStream: Failed to create /tmp/enigerr.txt/enigcmd.txt
enigmail.js: WriteFileContents: Failed to write to /tmp/enigerr.txt/enigcmd.txt
enigmail.js: CreateFileStream: Failed to create /tmp/enigerr.txt/enigenv.txt
enigmail.js: WriteFileContents: Failed to write to /tmp/enigerr.txt/enigenv.txt
enigmail> /usr/bin/gpg --charset utf8 --batch --no-tty --status-fd 2 --with-colo
ns --list-keys 1E0A6DA6FD4CDEB1
enigmail.js: CreateFileStream: Failed to create /tmp/enigerr.txt/enigout.txt
enigmail.js: WriteFileContents: Failed to write to /tmp/enigerr.txt/enigout.txt
enigmail.js: CreateFileStream: Failed to create /tmp/enigerr.txt/enigerr.txt
enigmail.js: WriteFileContents: Failed to write to /tmp/enigerr.txt/enigerr.txt
enigmail.js: CreateFileStream: Failed to create /tmp/enigerr.txt/enigcmd.txt
enigmail.js: WriteFileContents: Failed to write to /tmp/enigerr.txt/enigcmd.txt
enigmail.js: CreateFileStream: Failed to create /tmp/enigerr.txt/enigenv.txt
enigmail.js: WriteFileContents: Failed to write to /tmp/enigerr.txt/enigenv.txt
enigmail> /usr/bin/gpg --charset utf8 --batch --no-tty --status-fd 2 -d
enigmail.js: CreateFileStream: Failed to create /tmp/enigerr.txt/enigerr.txt
enigmail.js: WriteFileContents: Failed to write to /tmp/enigerr.txt/enigerr.txt
gpg: Signature made Tue Jan 18 09:55:21 2005 EST using DSA key ID FD4CDEB1
gpg: Good signature from "Donald D Henson <***@wepin.com>"
gpg: WARNING: This key is not certified with a trusted signature!
gpg: There is no indication that the signature belongs to the owner.
Primary key fingerprint: 153A BB1D 4989 D076 0423 29FD 1E0A 6DA6 FD4C DEB1
enigmail.js: CreateFileStream: Failed to create /tmp/enigerr.txt/eniginp.txt
enigmail.js: WriteFileContents: Failed to write to /tmp/enigerr.txt/eniginp.txt
enigmail.js: CreateFileStream: Failed to create /tmp/enigerr.txt/enigcmd.txt
enigmail.js: WriteFileContents: Failed to write to /tmp/enigerr.txt/enigcmd.txt
enigmail.js: CreateFileStream: Failed to create /tmp/enigerr.txt/enigenv.txt
enigmail.js: WriteFileContents: Failed to write to /tmp/enigerr.txt/enigenv.txt
enigmail> /usr/bin/gpg --charset utf8 --batch --no-tty --status-fd 2 --with-colo
ns --list-keys 1E0A6DA6FD4CDEB1
enigmail.js: CreateFileStream: Failed to create /tmp/enigerr.txt/enigout.txt
enigmail.js: WriteFileContents: Failed to write to /tmp/enigerr.txt/enigout.txt
enigmail.js: CreateFileStream: Failed to create /tmp/enigerr.txt/enigerr.txt
enigmail.js: WriteFileContents: Failed to write to /tmp/enigerr.txt/enigerr.txt
enigmail.js: CreateFileStream: Failed to create /tmp/enigerr.txt/enigcmd.txt
enigmail.js: WriteFileContents: Failed to write to /tmp/enigerr.txt/enigcmd.txt
enigmail.js: CreateFileStream: Failed to create /tmp/enigerr.txt/enigenv.txt
enigmail.js: WriteFileContents: Failed to write to /tmp/enigerr.txt/enigenv.txt
enigmail> /usr/bin/gpg --charset utf8 --batch --no-tty --status-fd 2 -d
enigmail.js: CreateFileStream: Failed to create /tmp/enigerr.txt/enigerr.txt
enigmail.js: WriteFileContents: Failed to write to /tmp/enigerr.txt/enigerr.txt
gpg: Signature made Tue Jan 18 09:55:21 2005 EST using DSA key ID FD4CDEB1
gpg: Good signature from "Donald D Henson <***@wepin.com>"
gpg: WARNING: This key is not certified with a trusted signature!
gpg: There is no indication that the signature belongs to the owner.
Primary key fingerprint: 153A BB1D 4989 D076 0423 29FD 1E0A 6DA6 FD4C DEB1
enigmail.js: CreateFileStream: Failed to create /tmp/enigerr.txt/eniginp.txt
enigmail.js: WriteFileContents: Failed to write to /tmp/enigerr.txt/eniginp.txt
enigmail.js: CreateFileStream: Failed to create /tmp/enigerr.txt/enigcmd.txt
enigmail.js: WriteFileContents: Failed to write to /tmp/enigerr.txt/enigcmd.txt
enigmail.js: CreateFileStream: Failed to create /tmp/enigerr.txt/enigenv.txt
enigmail.js: WriteFileContents: Failed to write to /tmp/enigerr.txt/enigenv.txt
enigmail> /usr/bin/gpg --charset utf8 --batch --no-tty --status-fd 2 --with-colo
ns --list-keys 1E0A6DA6FD4CDEB1
enigmail.js: CreateFileStream: Failed to create /tmp/enigerr.txt/enigout.txt
enigmail.js: WriteFileContents: Failed to write to /tmp/enigerr.txt/enigout.txt
enigmail.js: CreateFileStream: Failed to create /tmp/enigerr.txt/enigerr.txt
enigmail.js: WriteFileContents: Failed to write to /tmp/enigerr.txt/enigerr.txt
enigmail.js: CreateFileStream: Failed to create /tmp/enigerr.txt/eniginp.txt
enigmail.js: WriteFileContents: Failed to write to /tmp/enigerr.txt/eniginp.txt
enigmail.js: CreateFileStream: Failed to create /tmp/enigerr.txt/enigcmd.txt
enigmail.js: WriteFileContents: Failed to write to /tmp/enigerr.txt/enigcmd.txt
enigmail.js: CreateFileStream: Failed to create /tmp/enigerr.txt/enigenv.txt
enigmail.js: WriteFileContents: Failed to write to /tmp/enigerr.txt/enigenv.txt
enigmail> /usr/bin/gpg --charset utf8 --batch --no-tty --status-fd 2 --with-fing
erprint --with-colons --list-keys
enigmail.js: CreateFileStream: Failed to create /tmp/enigerr.txt/enigout.txt
enigmail.js: WriteFileContents: Failed to write to /tmp/enigerr.txt/enigout.txt
enigmail.js: CreateFileStream: Failed to create /tmp/enigerr.txt/enigerr.txt
enigmail.js: WriteFileContents: Failed to write to /tmp/enigerr.txt/enigerr.txt
enigmail.js: CreateFileStream: Failed to create /tmp/enigerr.txt/enigcmd.txt
enigmail.js: WriteFileContents: Failed to write to /tmp/enigerr.txt/enigcmd.txt
enigmail.js: CreateFileStream: Failed to create /tmp/enigerr.txt/enigenv.txt
enigmail.js: WriteFileContents: Failed to write to /tmp/enigerr.txt/enigenv.txt
enigmail> /usr/bin/gpg --charset utf8 --batch --no-tty --status-fd 2 --comment '
Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org' --clearsign -u 0x4E55
3910 --passphrase-fd 0 --no-use-agent
enigmail.js: CreateFileStream: Failed to create /tmp/enigerr.txt/enigerr.txt
enigmail.js: WriteFileContents: Failed to write to /tmp/enigerr.txt/enigerr.txt
gpg: skipped `0x4E553910': secret key not available
gpg: [stdin]: clearsign failed: secret key not available
enigmail.js: Enigmail.encryptMessageEnd: Error in command execution
enigmail.js: Enigmail.encryptMessage: Error in command execution