gpg: WARNING: unsafe ownership on configuration file
Upon opening a console as root I get the following message:
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Owner Read Write Group Forbidden Others Forbidden My question is; why is this considered unsafe and what should the permissions for this file be? |
If I read your post correctly, gpg.conf is 0600 which should be fine. What are the permissions on your ~/.gnupg directory? Mine are set as follows:
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$ ls -ld ~/.gnupg |
Thanks for the reply Steve. Here's the code:
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Well, you can't get more restrictive without stopping your own access :) By any chance, were you running gpg as a different user (root, for example)? From what I could find on google, running as a different user is the most common cause of that message.
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