kicksecure - unsecure home directory?

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I converted my xfce debian system into kicksecure by installing the kicksecure-cli. Now, when I start gpg, it warns me, that my home directory has unsecure permissions.

The permissions look like this:

user@host:/home$ ls -l
total 4
drwxr-x— 16 user user 4096 Jun 22 14:46 user

Is this a problem? Did something go wrong?

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In Debian (based) distribution(s) the linux user user is default member of a system group with the same name as the linux user account. That is really old. Called usergroup or so.

gpg specific usability issues.

chmod --recursive og-rwx ~/.gnupg

See also Free Support for Whonix ™

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Quote Permission Lockdown:

Strong Linux User Account Separation. Access rights restrictions.

For example, user1 using home folder /home/user1 cannot read user2’s files in the /home/user2 home folder.

Removes read, write, and execute access for others for all users who have home folders under the folder /home by running, for example, chmod o-rwx /home/user during package installation, upgrade, or PAM mkhomedir. This will be done only once per folder in the /home directory, so users who wish to relax file permissions are free to do so. This protects previously created files in user home folders that were created with lax file permissions prior to the installation of the security-misc package.

https://wiki.debian.org/UserPrivateGroups

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