On 04/10/2013 03:18 PM, Werner Koch wrote: > Hi, > > please write to gnupg-users@gnupg.org and not to the webmaster address. > > Thanks, > > Werner >
Sorry. Right now I am not subscribed and haven't been for years. It is just that this is a serious issue where I had no way that I could easily find to turn off the nasty behavior of my pass-phrase being supplied with no questions asked even after a reboot for using my secret key on OpenSuse 11.4. I am also battling spam that gives me about 100 to a maximum of a thousand spam messages in my other email account per day. Sorry about the failed request so I can post. I am busy! Why OpenSuse 11.4 and Ubuntu 10.04? I have gone through no less than twelve installs of various Linux distros and gave up on the iPad like interfaces and went back to something that gives me four work spaces with two xterms in each. That is no longer nice. It is MANDATORY! It is just that all of the advice "out there" is wrong. I don't know whether you are allowing bots to traverse the old mailings or not, but DuckDuckGo was NOT finding an answer.. It really needs to be something that is available some place and the web-site is authoritative. Since Ubuntu 10.04 doesn't have a PIN entry panel it is not an issue there. This URL while safe won't harm you: http://preview.tinyurl.com/c42bfqh It won't help you either. It seems that gpg2 on OpenSuse 11.4 does NOT use the ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf file even after you uncomment this line in the ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf file: # use-agent Since I do not have an ~/.xinitrc file some of this advice will kill more than just your GnuPG encryption: http://tr.opensuse.org/SDB:Using_gpg-agent You will never be able to login again! Well, since I also have a clamav user and clamav group I could login as clamav, su to to root (sudo su -l root for debianesque) and do a # rm /home/ME/.xinitrc Then ^D ^D, logout. Now I can login. But I still had a problem. My GnuPG pass-phrase was still being supplied with no questions asked. I didn't notice or change anything in the pinentry panel which I was able to use only the first time. Ever since then the pass-phrase was magically supplied and there was no way for me to set it to ask for it in the man pages or elsewhere because the pinentry panel never appeared again. Here is how you get it to ask for your GnuPG pass-phrase again (and it is at that second URL): echo "test" | gpg -ase -r 0xMYKEYID | gpg But you do NOT have to do anything other than that. Make sure you set it to something reasonable like ask for it every time or a time-out before asking for it again. Never ask for the GnuPG pass-phrase ever again? Sheesh! I may understand that on a smart-phone but not a desk-top system. HHH _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
