tag:gpgtools.tenderapp.com,2011-11-04:/discussions/problems/60136-problemGPGTools: Discussion 2018-10-18T19:58:34Ztag:gpgtools.tenderapp.com,2011-11-04:Comment/437709102017-10-21T22:49:18Z2017-10-21T22:49:18ZGPG Keychain: Generate new key failed! Code = 0 Operation not permitted<div><p>@ronan: I've never encountered that, but it sounds like perhaps you have a permissions issue on the directory /Users/ronanbecam and/or /Users/ronanbecam/.gnupg</p>
<p>You may want to check the permissions using the following CLI commands in Terminal:</p>
<p>1) ls -dl /Users/ronanbecam/.gnupg<br>
2) ls -dl /Users/ronanbecam/.gnupg/*<br>
3) ls -dl /Users/ronanbecam<br>
4) id</p>
<p>If they exist The directory in #1 & files within the directory in #2 should be user readable/writable/executable like this (note, not all of these may exist in your system yet):<br>
1)<br>
drwx------ 24 ronanbecam staff 816 Oct 21 15:43 /Users/ronanbecam/.gnupg</p>
<p>2)<br>
srwx------ 1 ronanbecam staff 0 Oct 16 08:40 /Users/ronanbecam/.gnupg/S.dirmngr<br>
srwx------ 1 ronanbecam staff 0 Oct 16 08:40 /Users/ronanbecam/.gnupg/S.gpg-agent<br>
srwx------ 1 ronanbecam staff 0 Oct 16 08:40 /Users/ronanbecam/.gnupg/S.gpg-agent.browser<br>
srwx------ 1 ronanbecam staff 0 Oct 16 08:40 /Users/ronanbecam/.gnupg/S.gpg-agent.extra<br>
srwx------ 1 ronanbecam staff 0 Oct 16 08:40 /Users/ronanbecam/.gnupg/S.gpg-agent.ssh<br>
drwx------ 3 ronanbecam staff 102 Sep 28 06:48 /Users/ronanbecam/.gnupg/crls.d<br>
-rw-------@ 1 ronanbecam staff 132 Sep 18 09:36 /Users/ronanbecam/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf -rw-------@ 1 ronanbecam staff 8283 Oct 9 13:55 /Users/ronanbecam/.gnupg/gpg.conf -rw-------@ 1 ronanbecam staff 8278 May 21 2015 /Users/ronanbecam/.gnupg/gpg.conf.bak drwx------ 6 ronanbecam staff 204 Sep 25 08:16 /Users/ronanbecam/.gnupg/private-keys-v1.d<br>
-rw------- 1 ronanbecam staff 6675725 Oct 21 15:39 /Users/ronanbecam/.gnupg/pubring.gpg -rw------- 1 ronanbecam staff 6675725 Oct 21 15:38 /Users/ronanbecam/.gnupg/pubring.gpg~ -rw------- 1 ronanbecam staff 600 Oct 21 15:24 /Users/ronanbecam/.gnupg/random_seed -rw------- 1 ronanbecam staff 5498 Jan 9 2014 /Users/ronanbecam/.gnupg/secring.gpg -rw------- 1 ronanbecam staff 49152 Sep 28 06:48 /Users/ronanbecam/.gnupg/tofu.db -rw------- 1 ronanbecam staff 40640 Oct 21 15:39 /Users/ronanbecam/.gnupg/trustdb.gpg</p>
<p>3)<br>
drwx------+ 181 ronanbecam staff 6154 Oct 21 15:46 /Users/ronanbecam/</p>
<p>4)<br>
uid=501(ronanbecam) gid=20(staff) groups=20(staff),403(com.apple.sharepoint.group.1),404(com.apple.sharepoint.group.2),12(everyone),61(localaccounts),79(_appserverusr),80(admin),81(_appserveradm),98(_lpadmin),399(com.apple.access_ssh),33(_appstore),100(_lpoperator),204(_developer),398(com.apple.access_screensharing),401(com.apple.sharepoint.group.5)</p></div>gpg_dude