Permissions Warning

[Dave Barton]

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On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 08:38, Michael Nahrath wrote:
> Dave Barton <bmcs@myrealbox.com> schrieb am 2002-12-08 22:19 Uhr:
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> > GPG is working well for me, but I always get the following warning:
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> > gpg: WARNING: unsafe permissions on configuration file
> > "/home/dave/.gnupg/options"
> > gpg: WARNING: unsafe enclosing directory permissions on configuration f=
ile
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> > Obviously, my permissions are not set exclusively to root
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> They should not. They should be set exclusively to _you_.
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> > and I am definitely not going to run gpg as root.
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> You're right!
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> > Could someone please explain:
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> > a) How do I switch this warning off ?
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> Correct the permissions for the file and the directory:
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> chmod 600 /home/dave/.gnupg/options
> chmod 700 /home/dave/.gnupg/
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> > b) Why does gpg expect files in a user's home directory to be for the
> > exclusive use of root ?
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> It expects them to for the exclusive use of theit owner.
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> They should be like this (if you are "user"):
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> [user@host]~$ ls -al .gnupg/
> drwx------  12 user     staff         408 Dec  8 22:25 ./
> [...]
> -rw-------   1 user     staff        4776 Dec  8 20:40 options
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> Exclusive to root would mean (you don't want this):
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> [user@host]~$ ls -al .gnupg/
> d---------  12 user     staff         408 Dec  8 22:25 ./
> [...]
> ----------   1 user     staff        4776 Dec  8 20:40 options
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> Greeting, Michi

Thanks Michi, that's exactly what I needed.

Regards
Dave
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Registered Linux User #288562 http://counter.li.org

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