in reply to Re: bad gpg
in thread bad gpg

I can't.   .gnupg is root:me with 700 permissions, and all of the existing files in it are root:me with 600. But if I change permissions on .gnupg to 770, gpg squawks about lax permissions on the directory.

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Re^3: bad gpg
by thargas (Deacon) on Mar 22, 2011 at 16:07 UTC
    If the .gnupg directory is owned and only writable by root, then you must run the cpan install as root, which you'd normally have to do anyway, in order to get things installed in the correct location. It sounds like you've got some non-standard setup. In which case I'm not likely to be able to help you. Sorry. :-(
      sudo prefixes the make-install step. I suppose I could have set the gpg item in o conf to "sudo gpg" and than might have fixed things. Instead I simply deleted the .gnupg directory in my home directory, and now CPAN installs of signed modules run fine.