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# fix gpg warning unsafe permissions on homedir

When you copy gpg configuration form other machine, you might get warning as follow

```
gpg: WARNING: unsafe permissions on homedir '/home/user/.gnupg'
```

To fix this, make sure that The `.gnupg` directory has the correct permission.

```
chown -R $(whoami) ~/.gnupg/
```

And files & folder inside has the correct permisson

```
find ~/.gnupg -type f -exec chmod 600 {} \; # Set 600 for files
find ~/.gnupg -type d -exec chmod 700 {} \; # Set 700 for directories
```