On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 02:13:17AM +0200, Josef Wolf wrote: > I am wondering what this error message > > WARNING: unsafe ownership on homedir `/usr/local/etc/backup' > > is trying to tell me. > > This directory is owned by root:myself and has mode 750. So it is > writable only by root and readable only by myself and by root. > AFAICS, it is as safe as it can get. Do I really have to remove > access for _root_? How do I do that? > > I can see the necessity of such a warning if the directory is writable > by some arbitrary user. But isn't root somewhat special? > > Just wondering...
No opinions? Here is one more example: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> LANG= gpg -e \ --homedir /m/a/etc/naclient/ppcbackup \ -r "myself" \ </etc/printcap >test gpg: WARNING: unsafe permissions on homedir `/m/a/etc/naclient/ppcbackup' [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> ls -l -d /m \ /m/a \ /m/a/etc \ /m/a/etc/naclient \ /m/a/etc/naclient/ppcbackup drwxr-x--x 9 myself myself 4096 2008-05-21 00:08 /m drwxr-x--x 10 myself myself 4096 2006-07-18 15:00 /m/a drwxr-x--x 7 myself myself 4096 2007-06-23 01:36 /m/a/etc drwxr-x--- 3 myself myself 4096 2008-05-24 01:49 /m/a/etc/naclient/ drwxr-x--- 2 myself myself 4096 2008-05-28 21:17 /m/a/etc/naclient/ppcbackup/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> LANG= id uid=1006(myself) gid=1006(myself) groups=1006(myself) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> The homedir and all the directories above it are owned by myself:myself. None of them is modifiable by anyone else but myself:myself. And the homedir is readable only by myself:myself. Why is this directory considered to have unsafe permissions? How do I get rid of this warning? _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users