gpg: cannot open /dev/tty: Permission denied

[Matthias Urlichs]

Hi,

Randy Harmon:
> 
> I'm trying GnuPG, and I'm having some problems.  This is on a Debian
> Linux 2.0.37 box.  It verifies signatures OK, but spits out the
> message "cannot open /dev/tty: Permission denied".
> 
"chmod 666 /dev/tty".

Some Linux boxes have broken permissions for that device file.

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