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Mac Forum / Programming / Perl / June 2006cpan not not working because of unsafe ownership on configuration file gpg
Hello all, I am unable to help myself out of this problem. My module cpan is always complaining, when I issue an install command with errors like follows: *** gpg: WARNING: unsafe ownership on configuration file `/Users/mareklaptop/.gnupg/gpg.conf' gpg: WARNING: unsafe ownership on configuration file `/Users/mareklaptop/.gnupg/gpg.conf' gpg: Signature made Sun Jun 11 18:26:58 2006 CEST using DSA key ID 450F89EC gpg: external program calls are disabled due to unsafe options file permissions gpg: keyserver communications error: general error gpg: Can't check signature: public key not found Signature invalid for distribution file. Please investigate. *** I have installed gpg, it is true some weeks ago, because I was sometimes stumbling over these gpg messages with the Module cpan. But now, nothing goes ... The rights in my gnupg-folder are as follows: [markslap:~/.gnupg] mareklap% ls -l total 224 16 -rw------- 1 mareklap staff 8082 12 Jun 22:28 gpg.conf 184 -rw-r--r-- 1 mareklap staff 93826 5 Jun 07:58 pubring.gpg 8 -rw------- 1 mareklap staff 600 10 Jun 06:49 random_seed 8 -rw------- 1 mareklap staff 1107 17 Apr 12:06 secring.gpg 8 -rw------- 1 mareklap staff 1200 5 Jun 07:59 trustdb.gpg I already changed the rights of gpg.conf to 755, without any success. In the config-file ( gpg.conf ) is an uncommented: keyserver hkp://subkeys.pgp.net and keyserver-options auto-key-retrieve thank you very much for any hint marek ps: MacOS 10.3.9 - Perl v5.8.8  Signature___________________________________________ the embassy for talented young musicians Podium International | Marek Stepanek | mstep@PodiumInternational.org http://www.PodiumInternational.org ___________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________ Inbox full of spam? Get leading spam protection and 1GB storage with All New Yahoo! Mail. http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html > I am unable to help myself out of this problem. My module cpan is > always [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > gpg: WARNING: unsafe ownership on configuration file > `/Users/mareklaptop/.gnupg/gpg.conf' It means that the user running gpg (root) is not the same as the user that owns the gpg.conf file (mareklaptop). If verifying module signatures is your only use for GPG, you could simply chown that file to make it owned by root. A better option is to install and use the latest CPAN.pm module, which allows you to supply an alternative to the final "make install" command. You can configure it to use "sudo make" instead of just "make" for that step, so that you no longer have to run the CPAN shell itself with sudo. That, in turn, means that *only* the install step will be run as root; the download, build, and test steps will be run as your normal user login. The second option is more work, but it reduces the amount of stuff that's running as root - which is always a good idea. sherm-- Cocoa programming in Perl: http://camelbones.sourceforge.net Hire me! My resume: http://www.dot-app.org > It means that the user running gpg (root) is not the same as the user > that owns the gpg.conf file (mareklaptop). [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > > sherm-- thank you Sherm, this was it. It is late in Munich now, so I tried only the first solution: % sudo chown root:staff .gnupg/gpg.conf and % sudo chown root:staff .gnupg/ cpan is working now :-) I will care tomorrow about the second solution ... So long (until tomorrow evening) thank you again marek ps: but one thing is worrying me: I am unable now, to change back to the folder .gnupg ... [markslap:~] mareklap% sudo cd .gnupg/ sudo: cd: command not found there is probably something fundamental, which I do not understand about root in the shell ??? ___________________________________________________________ The all-new Yahoo! Mail goes wherever you go - free your email address from your Internet provider. http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html > ps: but one thing is worrying me: I am unable now, to change back > to the [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > about > root in the shell ??? The cd command is a built-in, so there's no external /usr/bin/cd app for sudo to load and run as root. Hence the error "cd: command not found". sherm-- Cocoa programming in Perl: http://camelbones.sourceforge.net Hire me! My resume: http://www.dot-app.org > A better option is to install and use the latest CPAN.pm module, > which allows you to supply an alternative to the final "make install" [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > sherm-- Which bundle exactly you suggest, that I install ? Sorry for this dump question, but making cpan> i /cpan/ issues 317 answers. Nothing with a pure cpan.pm ... Probably you mean Bundle::CPAN or Bundle::CPANPLUS ? or something else ? thank you for your patience marek Signature___________________________________________ the embassy for talented young musicians Podium International | Marek Stepanek | mstep@PodiumInternational.org http://www.PodiumInternational.org ___________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________ All New Yahoo! Mail ? Tired of Vi@gr@! come-ons? Let our SpamGuard protect you. http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html >> A better option is to install and use the latest CPAN.pm module, >> which allows you to supply an alternative to the final "make install" [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > Probably you mean Bundle::CPAN or Bundle::CPANPLUS ? or something > else ? When you use //s with i, CPAN uses a regex match. If you know the exact name of the module you want, and simply want to check the version, you can narrow the search by a *lot* with: i CPAN But you mentioned earlier that you're using Perl 5.8.8, right? That's only a couple of months old, so you probably have a recent-enough CPAN already. What do you get when you enter this: o conf make_install_make_command If you get "unknown configuration variable" you'll need to upgrade CPAN. But if you get something like this: make_install_make_command [make] If you get something like that, then you can just assign that config variable a new value. Start CPAN with sudo, and change the config variable like this: sudo perl -MCPAN -e shell ... in CPAN ... o conf make_install_make_command "sudo make" o conf commit Then exit the CPAN shell. You'll need to fix up the .cpan directory and its contents now - since you've been running the CPAN shell as root, all of those files are owned by root. You can fix that with this: sudo chown -R mareklaptop ~/.cpan Now, you should be able to start CPAN without sudo: perl -MCPAN -e shell sherm-- Cocoa programming in Perl: http://camelbones.sourceforge.net Hire me! My resume: http://www.dot-app.org |
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