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> On Dec 17, 2019, at 20:51, Philip Webb <purslow@××××××××.net> wrote: |
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> When encrypting a file, I was told : |
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> root:552 root> gpg -c <filename> |
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> gpg: WARNING: unsafe ownership on homedir '/home/purslow/.gnupg' |
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> The file is owned by my user, ie <user>:<user> . |
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> This seems to be the default when 'gpg' is installed. |
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It's probably complaining if you're running as root and you've set the GPG home did to be in /home/purslow/.gnupg rather than /root/.gnupg (and owned by root:root). Otherwise try setting that directory to 0700 permission (u+rwx g-rwx o-rwx). |
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Andrew |
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