This fixes the " gpg: WARNING: unsafe permissions on homedir '/home/path/to/user/.gnupg' " error while using Gnupg .

Correct_GnuPG_Permission.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# To fix the " gpg: WARNING: unsafe permissions on homedir '/home/path/to/user/.gnupg' " error
# Make sure that the .gnupg directory and its contents is accessibile by your user.
chown -R $(whoami) ~/.gnupg/

# Also correct the permissions and access rights on the directory
chmod 600 ~/.gnupg/*
chmod 700 ~/.gnupg

Thanks a lot, this fixed the gpg warning!

I'm curious about how it fixed the warning, can you please explain a bit, specifically line 8 and 9?

Thanks in advance!

@sf9v,

Glad that this helped to fix the warning.

Line 8 changes the permissions on the files in the ~/.gnupg/* directory to 700. 700 means that only the owner/creator can Read, Write and Execute on the files in the directory. Also group and others cannot perform any operation on the files in the directory.

Line 9 changes the permissions on the ~/.gnupg directory to 600. The 600 directory permission means that only the owner/creator of the directory can Read and Write but can't Execute on the directory. The group and others cannot perform any operation on the directory.

Awesome, will keep this for future reference. Thanks a lot @oseme-techguy!