On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 07:41:39PM -0500, Jason Wallwork wrote: > Received the warning message: > gpg: WARNING: unsafe ownership on configuration file > "/home/jason/.gnupg/gpg.conf" > > after running gpg --version as root. I don't get the warning if I run the > same > command as a regular user. > > Here's the permissions on the file: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> ls -l .gnupg/gpg.conf > -rw------- 1 jason users 8565 2005-03-17 12:43 .gnupg/gpg.conf > > Should I be concerned? I can't find this in the FAQ. I hope it's not a case > of > not looking hard enough. :-/
It means that the user you are running GPG as was not the owner of the gpg.conf file. That can be a security problem (as someone other than you can manipulate it), so GPG is warning you about it. Since you're running as root on purpose, it's presumably not a security problem, but GPG doesn't know that. David _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
