Reset Ubuntu Home Dir Permissions

In case you messed up the permissions of you home dir. Here is a small guide to fix it:

1. Reset the permissions for the directories recursivly:

sudo find /home/user/ -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;

2. and the permissions for all files too:

sudo find /home/user/ -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;

3. Ensure that your GPG directory has the proper permissions:

sudo chmod -R 600 .gnupg/
sudo chmod 700 .gnupg/

If you don't want that other users can read your home folder (which not default in Ubuntu) change it's permission also:

sudo chmod 700 /home/user

That's it. Not that hard, if you know the right commands.