gpg: WARNING: unsafe ownership on homedir

[Branko Majic]

On Tue, 4 Jun 2013 19:22:04 +0000
<Ira.Kirschner at 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

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