Re: Installing Enigmail

[James Hosken <james@jamesho.co.uk>]

HdV@DTO.TUDelft.NL wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Dec 2003, ninaiz wrote:
>
>
> > try as a normal user:
> > [user@laptop:~]$ xhost local:
> > non-network local connections being added to access control list
> > [user@laptop:~]$ su     ( AND NOT SU - )
> > Password:
> > [root@laptop:~]$ mozilla
>
>
> Please don't do that. Better to learn the propper way to run X as
> another user by using xauth. Xauth allows you to import the magic cookie
> of another user, so you can authenticate yourself to X like this:
>
> $ su - <user>
> # export DISPLAY=:0.0; xauth merge ~<user>/.Xauthority
> # xfontsel &
>
> xhost won't discriminate users, only hosts, which could be a security
> problem on a multi-user system.
>
> Fill in the propper username and display and your good to go.
>
> HTH
>
> Grx HdV



Thanks that has seamed to have worked.
I then started Mozilla as root to complete the install.
Then started as mornal user but it fails "Failed to initialise Enigmail"
I have entered the path for gpg as /usr/bin/gpg

What's going wrong?
Thnaks
James