On Wednesday, 18 December 2019 07:33:51 GMT Andrew Udvare wrote: > > On Dec 17, 2019, at 20:51, Philip Webb <purs...@ca.inter.net> wrote: > > > > When encrypting a file, I was told : > > root:552 root> gpg -c <filename> > > gpg: WARNING: unsafe ownership on homedir '/home/purslow/.gnupg' > > > > The file is owned by my user, ie <user>:<user> . > > This seems to be the default when 'gpg' is installed. > > It's probably complaining if you're running as root and you've set the GPG > home did to be in /home/purslow/.gnupg rather than /root/.gnupg (and owned > by root:root). Otherwise try setting that directory to 0700 permission > (u+rwx g-rwx o-rwx). > > Andrew
Other than what Andrew said, you're using a symmetric cipher, so the complaint is only a warning about the ownership of the gnupg configuration file being used. You may wish your root user to have different gnupg settings than your plain user and gnupg is warning you about it. However, this is rather odd. When you first use gnupg as root (or as any user) without specifying a configuration file, it will try to create a new ~/.gnupg directory with default settings and public/private keys; e.g. # gpg -c <some_file> gpg: directory '/root/.gnupg' created gpg: keybox '/root/.gnupg/pubring.kbx' created Given the above the directory and files in /root/.gnupg should be owned by root:root, rather than root:552 (if '552' in your message is some group ID). -- Regards, Mick
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