Public bug reported:
Version: gpg (GnuPG) 1.4.12 on up-to-date raring
If you delete a public key using sudo (by mistake), you get a security
warning about pubring file owner. If you go ahead, the pubring file in
you home is then owned by root:root and you have no access to it anymore
unless you change owner by hand.
How to reproduce:
gpg --recv <somekey>
sudo gpg --delete-key <somekey>
gpg --recv <somekey>
you get
gpg: impossibile aprire "/home/dario/.gnupg/pubring.gpg"
gpg: keydb_get_keyblock failed: eof
gpg: non รจ stato trovato un portachiavi scrivibile: eof
gpg: errore nel leggere "[stream]": errore generale
that is something like
gpg: unable to open "/home/dario/.gnupg/pubring.gpg"
gpg: keydb_get_keyblock failed: eof
gpg: no writable keyring found: eof
gpg: error reading "[stream]": generic error
That's clearly fixed by a simple chown, anyway. This is probably because
the pubring is entirely rewritten with root privileges, but I'm not sure
it's the correct behavior.
** Affects: gnupg (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: gnupg gpg key keyring permissions root sudo
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sudo breaks keyring access for normal user
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