correct way to start gpg-agent

Heinz Diehl htd at fritha.org
Thu Aug 30 13:34:26 UTC 2012


On 30.08.2012, Maurizio Marini wrote: 

> `gpg-agent --daemon`
> or, with f17, something different should be configured?

That will be sufficient. However, you could let the agent write
GPG_AGENT_INFO into a file, to inform other programs/processes about
it (esp. kmail). See "--write-env-file" parameter in manpage. Usually,
it points to your homedir or ~/.cache.

 --write-env-file /home/user/gpg-agent-info



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