reflum, On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 09:26 -0600, Allen Schultz wrote: > I was following TJL73's tutorial on secure key generation with the below > link and was having problems with updating a subkey from the > primary-secret key in another directory. > > http://tjl73.altervista.org/secure_keygen/en/index.html > > $ gpg --homedir backup1 --keyring pubring.gpg --secret-keyring > secring.gpg -trustdb-name trustdb.gpg --list-secret-keys > gpg: WARNING: unsafe permissions on homedir `backup1' > > I did a ls -al and found backup to have 744 access. I set it to 644 > access and got the following. > > gpg: WARNING: unsafe permissions on homedir `backup1' > [...]
> Apparently I dont have the permissions right on the directory. Now with > 644 I cannot access the directory. For the ring files in the directory > and the directory itself, what is gpg looking for in permissions? Should > I ask this in my LUG? Normaly GnuPG requires 700 (owner can do everything, nobody else can do anything) on the .gnupg directory. -- Philipp. (Rah of PH2)
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