possible permissions issue in panther 10.3.9?

[exit jones]

hi.  warm greetings to my new privacy-minded, mac-lovin friends, and i wish y'all the very happiest new year.  (i think we'll remember this one.)

i live abroad and i can't sit in front of my pops' machine back in my country and configure stuff for him.  i'm not a mac user (i like linux, which means i can also appreciate mac fs heirarchy and all that jazz, but i really have very little experience poking around inside osx), but he is, and i've run into a problem that i think may have a simple solution.  i would've liked to have installed a virtual panther box and try myself but i don't have a copy and i like to stay legal...  i hope not to have to ssh in because navigating my father's network with him over the phone may overbalance his time/energy ratio.  however, i really think it's simple.

he's on a g4 tower, running os x 10.3.9.  we went here:
http://macgpg.sourceforge.net/
and downloaded:
gnupg privacy guard 1.4.1
gpg keychain access 0.7.0
gpg filetool 1.0.2
gpgdropthing 0.4.3
gpgpreferences 1.2.2

some things didn't go as planned and i walked my pops through a little bit of command-line stuff, but as much as i dig the terminal, my father needs a good gui.  in the end, though, we created his keys and exchanged our public ones.  the above apps look fine and return no errors, and he can decrypt email from me (thus we know that my public key is imported correctly into gnupg).  however, when he tries to encrypt either using gpgpfiletool or gpgdropthing, the drop-down "recipient" field only contains his own information-- no other recipient options.

again, we went in through the terminal and everything works fine: he can encrypt to me on the comand line.  but he's not gonna DO that.  sounds like a permissions thing ... any ideas?  just tryna get some ideas together before we try again.  thanks!

exit

[Stéphane Corthésy-2]

Hello,

On Jan 2, 2009, at 6:57 AM, exit jones wrote:

>
> hi.  warm greetings to my new privacy-minded, mac-lovin friends, and  
> i wish
> y'all the very happiest new year.  (i think we'll remember this one.)
>
> i live abroad and i can't sit in front of my pops' machine back in my
> country and configure stuff for him.  i'm not a mac user (i like  
> linux,
> which means i can also appreciate mac fs heirarchy and all that  
> jazz, but i
> really have very little experience poking around inside osx), but he  
> is, and
> i've run into a problem that i think may have a simple solution.  i  
> would've
> liked to have installed a virtual panther box and try myself but i  
> don't
> have a copy and i like to stay legal...  i hope not to have to ssh in
> because navigating my father's network with him over the phone may
> overbalance his time/energy ratio.  however, i really think it's  
> simple.
>
> he's on a g4 tower, running os x 10.3.9.  we went here:
> http://macgpg.sourceforge.net/
> and downloaded:
> gnupg privacy guard 1.4.1
> gpg keychain access 0.7.0
> gpg filetool 1.0.2
> gpgdropthing 0.4.3
> gpgpreferences 1.2.2

Wouldn't you like to upgrade to 10.4.11? 10.3 is no longer supported  
by Apple. And I'd say most people no longer have access to 10.3, so  
debugging problems on such old system might be impossible for  
developpers.

> some things didn't go as planned and i walked my pops through a  
> little bit
> of command-line stuff, but as much as i dig the terminal, my father  
> needs a
> good gui.  in the end, though, we created his keys and exchanged our  
> public
> ones.  the above apps look fine and return no errors, and he can  
> decrypt
> email from me (thus we know that my public key is imported correctly  
> into
> gnupg).  however, when he tries to encrypt either using gpgpfiletool  
> or
> gpgdropthing, the drop-down "recipient" field only contains his own
> information-- no other recipient options.

I don't use these apps, so here's just a guess: maybe it's a trust  
problem. By default, before using a PGP key you need to verify it and  
trust it - see PGP/GPG doc. You can also tell gpg to always trust all  
keys - do a 'man gpg' and look for --trust-model option, that you  
could add to the ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf file.

Just a guess,

Stéphane

> again, we went in through the terminal and everything works fine: he  
> can
> encrypt to me on the comand line.  but he's not gonna DO that.  
> sounds like
> a permissions thing ... any ideas?  just tryna get some ideas together
> before we try again.  thanks!
>
> exit
>
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