Dear fellow GnuPG users: I'm running gpg-agent with SSH support enabled, but ssh-add doesn't work as expected.
The documentation for the "enable-ssh-support" option says that ssh-add will ask for my SSH passphrase (it does), and that then gpg-agent will ask for my GPG passphrase, and use it to encrypt my SSH key and store it in a "gpg-agent specific directory". The second step doesn't happen. Not only am I not asked for my (GPG) passphrase, but the "sshcontrol" file is not updated. (I assume that this is the "gpg-agent specific directory" referred to in the docs.) The end result is that each day (or each time I start gpg-agent in a new session), I need to enter my SSH passphrase the first time I run one of the SSH utilities. The documentation for the "enable-ssh-support" option implies that this shouldn't be necessary--that once I enter my GPG passphrase at the beginning of the session, the agent should perform all further requests (involving either my GPG key, or my SSH key) without asking for a passphrase. Or am I just misunderstanding how things are supposed to work? I've checked the SSH_AUTH_SOCK environment variable, and it appears to be set correctly. I'm running GnuPG 2.0.19 (and OpenSSH_6.1p1) on a recently installed Fedora 18 system. Thanks for your help. -- Todd Hesla _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
