permissions and ownership on dir

gabsik · 02-05-2007, 03:25 AM

I backed up on a vfat external harddisk my gnupg keys.I restored it and put it in my home dir , restoring also ownership and permissions but something of weerd is happening :

Code:

root@argo:~# chown gabrix:gabrix .gnupg/ -R
root@argo:~# ll .gnupg/
total 40
drw-------  2 gabrix gabrix 4096 Feb  5 10:10 .
drwxr-xr-x  4 gabrix gabrix 4096 Feb  5 10:08 ..
-rw-------  1 gabrix gabrix  287 Feb  5 10:08 gabriele_x_revoca.asc
-rw-------  1 gabrix gabrix 8084 Feb  5 10:08 gpg.conf
-rw-------  1 gabrix gabrix  979 Feb  5 10:08 pubring.gpg
-rw-------  1 gabrix gabrix  979 Feb  5 10:08 pubring.gpg~
-rw-------  1 gabrix gabrix  600 Feb  5 10:08 random_seed
-rw-------  1 gabrix gabrix 1117 Feb  5 10:08 secring.gpg
-rw-------  1 gabrix gabrix 1280 Feb  5 10:08 trustdb.gpg

gabrix@argo:~$ ll .gnupg/
ls: .gnupg/.: Permission denied
ls: .gnupg/..: Permission denied
ls: .gnupg/gpg.conf: Permission denied
ls: .gnupg/trustdb.gpg: Permission denied
ls: .gnupg/pubring.gpg: Permission denied
ls: .gnupg/random_seed: Permission denied
ls: .gnupg/secring.gpg: Permission denied
ls: .gnupg/pubring.gpg~: Permission denied
ls: .gnupg/gabriele_x_revoca.asc: Permission denied
total 0

I think it is all self explenatory ....

colucix · 02-05-2007, 03:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gabsik

drw------- 2 gabrix gabrix 4096 Feb 5 10:10 .

For some reason the .gnupg directory (listed as current directory) has no executable permissions. First, try to change them with

Code:

chmod u+x .gnupg

and then issue the ll command again.

gabsik · 02-05-2007, 04:25 AM

Thanks mate !!!!
As far as you know is any how i can import my secret key from a keyserver ...

colucix · 02-05-2007, 04:33 AM

Have a look at
http://www.prato.linux.it/~mnencia/gnupg.html
(in italian) or at the gnupg site:
http://www.gnupg.org/(en)/documentation/howtos.html

gabsik · 02-05-2007, 06:48 AM

I know basis of gnupg , what i wonder to know is if i lost my secret key i always used to sign other's people public key,is anyway i can recover it from the public one i have stored on the keyserver?