[tin-users] pgp setup and posts

[Urs Janßen]

In Luc Lan <swimm3r at gmx.com> wrote:
> The permission check:
>         ~/.gnupg$ ls -la
>         total 48
>         drwx------  6 luc luc 4096 Jan  5 09:46 .
>         drwx------ 44 luc luc 4096 Jan  5 09:47 ..
>         -rw-r--r--  1 luc luc 1236 Jan  5 09:43 pubring.kbx

looks ok

> So, pubring.kbx is present and it is readable by all.
> But something is fishy with ~/.gnupg dir permissions.

to get a more detailed error message (for 2 secs on screen and
captured in ~/.tin/$NNTPSERVER/msglog), e.g.:
	"Can't open .../pubring.kbx: Error: No such file or directory"
you could apply the patch below.

--- tin-2.6.6/src/pgp.c	2025-12-06 00:27:07.857763869 +0100
+++ tin-2.6.6/src/pgp.c	2026-01-05 09:31:02.598077613 +0100
@@ -347,6 +347,10 @@
 		fclose(fp);
 		return TRUE;
 	}
+	else
+		perror_message(_(txt_cannot_open), keyring);
+#else
+#	error "HAVE_GPG not defined"
 #endif /* HAVE_GPG */
 
 	joinpath(keyring, sizeof(keyring), pgp_data, PGP_PUBRING);