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Mario Limonciello (superm1) wrote : Re: [Bug 1565963] Re: gpg secret keys not migrated after upgrade to gnupg 2.1

Yes that would be great, thanks

On Sat, Apr 9, 2016, 14:05 dkg <email address hidden> wrote:

> On Sat 2016-04-09 05:53:36 -0400, Werner Koch <email address hidden> wrote:
> > On Sat, 9 Apr 2016 01:37, <email address hidden> said:
> >
> >> It's a little unusual to have ~/.gnupg/private-keys-v1.d not be u+x, as
> >> that would imply that the directory isn't listable. This is probably
> >> causing problems for the gpg-agent.
> >
> > Yes, gpg-agent provide commands to list private keys and we may
> > eventually use that feature to speed up the --list-secret-keys command
> > in certain cases.
>
> Makes sense. At any rate, the lack of u+x appears to make gpg-agent
> fail to do the initial key import.
>
> >> I have no idea how this directory got the u+x bit cleared, but maybe
> >> that's something that either:
> >>
> >> a) gpg-agent could clean up on its own, or
> >
> > That is a good idea. ~/.gnupg is anyway a property of GnuPG and thus
> > gpg-agent should be allowed to change the permissions.
>
> Shall i open an issue in https://bugs.gnupg.org/ about this?
>
> --dkg
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