Noiano wrote: > Hi everybody > I have GnuPg 1.4.6 installed and I have my .gnupg directory as a > symbolic link pointing to an encrypted partition. As soon as I need > my keys I mount the encrypted partition and the symbolic link is > resolved with no problem. The problem is the use of gnupg agent: I > type gpg-agent --daemon > gpg-agent-info so that the variable > information are stored to that file. Under my .bashrc I have added > the following line "source gpg-agent-info" so that the variable is > correctly set up. > The problem is the use of gnupg agent with program such as > thunderbird, kpgp. They cannot see the variable GPG_AGENT_INFO as > all shells do. I cannot set anything in .xsession because the > encrypted partition isn't mounted on boot but on demand. Could you > please tell me a reasonable solution for this matter?
Start Thunderbird (or kgpg) with a wrapper program that checks if gpg-agent is running and if yes export GPG_AGENT_INFO from your gpg-agent-info file. I found that gpg-connect-agent is quite nice to do this. Something like this should do the job: #!/bin/bash source /path/to/gpg-agent-info export GPG_AGENT_INFO gpg-connect-agent <<EOT /echo OK EOT if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then ## gpg-agent is not running unset GPG_AGENT_INFO fi exec /path/to/thunderbird "$@" -Patrick _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
