gpg problem

[Paul Howarth]

Eric Tanguy wrote:
> When i try gpg --search-key 0x?????
> i obtain :
> gpg: WARNING: unsafe enclosing directory permissions on configuration
> file `/home/tanguy/.gnupg/gpg.conf'
> gpg: external program calls are disabled due to unsafe options file
> permissions
> gpg: keyserver communications error: general error
> gpg: keyserver search failed: general error
> 
> what's the problem and how to solve it ?

What's the output of:
# ls -ld / /home /home/tanguy /home/tanguy/.gnupg 
/home/tanguy/.gnupg/gpg.conf
(that's all one line)

There should be no write permissions for "others" for any of the 
directories, /home/tanguy/.gnupg should be mode 0700 and 
/home/tanguy/.gnupg/gpg.conf should be 0600.

Paul.