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This fixes the " gpg: WARNING: unsafe permissions on homedir '/home/path/to/user/.gnupg' " error while using Gnupg .
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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
@Aunt13psychotic
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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

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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.

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