Perfectly simple explanation of what I was doing wrong. Works fine now. Much appreciated.
-----Original Message----- From: Gnupg-users [mailto:gnupg-users-boun...@gnupg.org] On Behalf Of Branko Majic Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2013 4:43 PM To: gnupg-users@gnupg.org Subject: Re: gpg: WARNING: unsafe ownership on homedir On Tue, 4 Jun 2013 19:22:04 +0000 <ira.kirsch...@sungard.com> wrote: > I have researched this error message and have found the suggestions do not > work. Does anyone know how to have this warning message stop? > > I am getting the message: gpg: WARNING: unsafe ownership on homedir > `/home/wsc_gpg/.gnupg' > > User wsc_gpg owns the gpg installation. > The process is running from root as: > sudo -u wsc_gpg cat /home/wsc_gpg/.gnupg/cache.txt | gpg --homedir > /home/wsc_gpg/.gnupg --batch --yes --no-mdc-warning --skip-verify > --passphrase-fd 0 --no-secmem-warning -o $OUTPUTFILE -d $ENCRYPTEDFILE Ok, so the catch here is that the first command in the line is being run as user wsc_gpg, but not the subsequent ones. You want want to put a sudo -u wsc_gpg in front of the second gpg command in the pipeline as well (otherwise it'll still run as root, and gpg will complain about .gnupg directory not being owned by root). Best regards -- Branko Majic Jabber: bra...@majic.rs Please use only Free formats when sending attachments to me. Бранко Мајић Џабер: bra...@majic.rs Молим вас да додатке шаљете искључиво у слободним форматима. _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
