sudo breaks keyring access for normal user

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Version: gpg (GnuPG) 1.4.12 on up-to-date raring

If you delete a public key using sudo (by mistake), you get a security warning about pubring file owner. If you go ahead, the pubring file in you home is then owned by root:root and you have no access to it anymore unless you change owner by hand.

How to reproduce:

gpg --recv <somekey>
sudo gpg --delete-key <somekey>
gpg --recv <somekey>

you get

gpg: impossibile aprire "/home/dario/.gnupg/pubring.gpg"
gpg: keydb_get_keyblock failed: eof
gpg: non è stato trovato un portachiavi scrivibile: eof
gpg: errore nel leggere "[stream]": errore generale

that is something like

gpg: unable to open "/home/dario/.gnupg/pubring.gpg"
gpg: keydb_get_keyblock failed: eof
gpg: no writable keyring found: eof
gpg: error reading "[stream]": generic error

That's clearly fixed by a simple chown, anyway. This is probably because the pubring is entirely rewritten with root privileges, but I'm not sure it's the correct behavior.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Daniel Leidert (dleidert-deactivatedaccount)]

You should probably check sudos manual pages and read about the -H option and sudoers env_* variables.

I'm not convinced, that you found a bug. Therefor setting this to Incomplete unless you provide further information or arguments.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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