GPG Keys

[José Paulo Matafome Oleiro]

Sáb, 2006-08-19 às 17:19 +0100, Tony Arnold escreveu:

> Leonard,
> 
> On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 18:56:29 -0700, Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
> 
> > When I run:
> > lchata at ubuntu:/etc/apt$ sudo gpg --keyserver
> > subkeys.pgp.net --recv 33BAC1B3
> > gpg: WARNING: unsafe enclosing directory ownership on
> > configuration file `/home/lchata/.gnupg/gpg.conf'
> > gpg: external program calls are disabled due to unsafe
> > options file permissions
> > gpg: keyserver communications error: general error
> > gpg: keyserver receive failed: general error
> > lchata at ubuntu:/etc/apt$ 
> > 
> > If I uderstand the message, it says that my home dir
> > is unsafe and should be owned by not me??? Never seen
> > this before using the command. Can somene explain this
> > to me and tell me how to fix so I can activate the
> > repo.
> 
> I read this as the permissions on the .gnupg directory are not to the
> liking of gpg. If it helps, mine is like this:
> 
> drwx------ 2 user user 4096 2006-08-19 16:57 .gnupg/
> 
> Note it is owned by me, and readable and writable only by me.
> 
> Regards,
> Tony.
> 

You need to set read, write permissions to this directory. Only to your user. After this everything should be ok. I had already this problem in the past.


--
Sincerely
José Oleiro aka Matafome (#computers at irc.ptnet.org Blog do Matafome )
Running Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper with XGL on Fujitsu-Siemens Model Amilo M
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