WARNING: unsafe permissions on homedir

[Samuel ]slund]

On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 01:38:45PM -0700, Frank Calfo wrote:
> Running GPG on Linux, I get this warning:  WARNING: unsafe permissions on 
> homedir
> 
> what should the permissions on the directory that contains the keystore be ?

It should not be world readable.
drwx------
should do it.
The point is to protect your private key, if someone gets a copy of it
the only barier left is your passphrase.

HTH
//Samuel