[Enigmail] [Solved!] Enigmail not detecting/enabling GPG anymore

[Eitan Adler]

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Jean-Marc Meessen wrote:
> Hello Olav,
> 
> EUREKA.
> 
> And it was so obvious !
> 
> First of all, I need to say that I am fairly new with unix though I have
> 25 years experience in computing.
> 
> When I salvaged the files (the profile directory that was stored on the
> TrueCrypt disk), I restored them on the flash drive. For a reason or the
> other, this drive mounts with "root" as owner and so that "user" has no
> execute rights...
> I moved the profile to the main disk (where I am the owner), changed the
> .ini, and tadaa, Enigmail works...
> 
> I was put on the scent of this when I tried to run Thunderbird under
> root (sudo) and enigmail worked. So, I then started to look for a
> security related problem and realized that Enigmail "executables" are
> stored in the profile. If they can't be executed, it can't work correctly...
> CQFD (ce qu'il fallait démontrer)
> 
> Stupid mistake, and sorry to have used this list bandwidth uselessly.
> 
> Jmm
> (from the eeePC)
> 
> 
> 
It wasn't useless.  Now other users with the same problems can
(hopefully) find what they are looking for.
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