Comment 18 for bug 1565963

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