On 6/17/2012 7:10 AM, Werner Koch wrote: > On Sat, 16 Jun 2012 22:42, papill...@gmail.com said: > >> For some reason, every time I do anything to an encrypted message, I >> have to re-enter my passphrase. If I open a message, I enter my >> passphrase, then, when I reply to it, I have to enter it again. And to >> send that reply? Yep, enter it again! > > Your gpg-agent is not installed properly. man gpg-agent to see how it > is to be started. If there is no gpg-agent it will only be started as > needed and then can't act as a passphrase cache. Ubuntu should have > handled this for you.
Wait...you expect me to read the man page? What kind of barbarian are you, anyway?!? lol Just kidding. For some reason, with all my troubleshooting, I never even considered reading the man page. I'll do that and see what I can find. Thank you for the help! > We will change gpg-agent in the next version to automagically start > itself as a daemon on the first access - this allow to use gpg-agent > without any additional system setup. Sounds good. I assume the way it's started now is on an 'as needed' basis? >> system, renamed the gpa.conf file (just in case) and added the >> "no-use-agent" entry to my gpg.conf file with no result. > > gpg2 ignores this option because gpg-agent is a required part of the > GnuPG-2 system. I figured that out while going through some of the posts relating to gpg-agent. Is this a permanent change? I know pinentry is supposed to be a safer way to enter passphrases so I'm assuming that the mandatory use of gpg-agent will continue on into future versions? Let me ask this: are there any major security implications (aside from sacrificing the security of pinentry) to hacking gpg2 to not use agent? I'm not considering doing this as I don't see a real need but I'm curious. Thanks! Anthony _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
