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 guys. Thanks @AnrDaemon. I incorporated those changes, in my case looks like I just mkdir first so ownership is fine, I just need to change file/folder permissions.

Then I just add:

chmod -R u=rw,u+X,go= ~/.gnupg

I hope that's compatible on various OS, like Mac/Linux etc. Should be, right? Anyway, here's the repo I added that changes to. It has a script to simplify set up of SSH and GPG stuff on a new mac. Hope it helps someone else out, let me know if so.

I seem to be the odd one out for this, I just installed ezarcher and I've tried everyone's suggestions. Not one of them worked for me. When I run ls - la or -ld it says that I'm the owner of /.gnupg. but when I try to run anything with sudo like pacman-key --init I get "gpg: WARNING: unsafe permissions on homedir '/root/.gnupg' ". I even did the gpgconf --kill all and gpgconf --kill dirmngr. I'm hope that someone e has come up with another option by now

Thank
Aunt13

sudo without an explicit user specification defaults to user #0 (usually named root).

Please show an actual output of sudo getfacl /root/.gnupg for further diagnostics.