[13925] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 7.7T:
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Mon Oct 16 18:27:30 1995
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 1995 18:27:26 -0400
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
To: Miroslav Jurisic <meeroh@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[13922] in Athena Bugs"
> I used pgpmenu program. I entered Configuration Menu, set my
> PGPPATH to /afs/athena.mit.edu/user/m/e/meeroh/,pgp and my UserID to
> 'Mirosdlav Jurisic <meeroh@mit.edu>'. Then I saved the configuration,
> I got the message it was saved. I exited the program, and run it
> again, and it couldn't load its configuration. I reset the two
> variables, and saved and exited again. File config.txt in my ~/.pgp
> directory was 0 bytes long.
Hi.
There are two things here. First, the PGPPATH variable doesn't get
saved, since there is no way to bootstrap the program to look for the
PGPPATH variable. So, if you want to use something other than the
default PGPPATH, you need to "setenv PGPPATH" in your .environment
file to point to the new location. The default value for PGPPATH (if
it isn't set anywhere else) is $HOME/.pgp -- in your case
/mit/meeroh/.pgp -- so setting it to /afs/athena.mit.user/user/m/e/meeroh/.pgp
is kind of silly.
Second, the not writing out your name is a bug. (I was using '!='
instead of 'ne' to compare two strings -- oops). I've fixed the bug
and the new program will be available when the locker is released late
tonight. One thing to keep in mind is that you do not have to set
your name in the configuration -- PGP will automatically use the first
key on the keyring (the most recently created key).
If you want to use the new program before the release, you can use
/afs/.athena/contrib/pgp/bin/pgpmenu
-derek
PS: To netprob people, I think you can consider this bug closed.
