gpg-agent

Martin S shieldfire at gmail.com
Fri Aug 23 04:50:36 UTC 2013


On Thursday, August 22, 2013 11:58:29 PM Raman Gupta wrote:
> On 08/22/2013 11:48 PM, Martin S wrote:
> > On Thursday, August 22, 2013 05:16:57 PM Raman Gupta wrote:
> >> On 08/22/2013 04:18 PM, Martin S wrote:
> >>> As I understand it the file gpg-agent-startup.sh should be placed in
> >>> /etc/kde/env and made executable for the gpg-agent to start att boot
> >>> time?
> >>> Agent is also enabled in the ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf
> >>> 
> >>> Running the file manually it starts the agent, but after having booted,
> >>> the
> >>> gpg-agent isn't started, so it seems the directory/file isn't read at
> >>> boot
> >>> time?
> >>> 
> >>> Where should that file be place to be run at startup?
> >>> 
> >>> /Martin S
> >> 
> >> I would suggest use of "keychain". It will automatically load from
> >> /etc/profile.d and will handle your gpg agent as well as other agents
> >> like ssh.
> > 
> > I installed keychain, created a file in profile.d which I tested manually
> > (and it worked) and then rebooted.
> 
> You shouldn't need to create anything in profile.d manually:
> 
> # rpm -q --whatprovides /etc/profile.d/keychain.sh
> keychain-2.6.8-11.fc19.noarch
> 
> > Then
> > [mskjoldebrand at dragon ~]$ ps aux | grep gpg-agent
> > mskjold+  1491  0.0  0.0 112644   928 pts/1    S+   05:41   0:00 grep --
> > color=auto gpg-agent
> > 
> > Hmm gpg-agent isn't there ... still I tried creating a new signed message
> > from KMail, and it actually works.
> > 
> > Shouldn't gpg-agent show up in ps aux | grep gpg-agent if it's run from
> > profile.d?
> 
> Did you create a .keychainrc file with your gpg key ID as specified here:
> 
> /usr/share/doc/keychain-2.6.8/README.Fedora
> 
> After you do that, and login again, what happens when you type
> "keychain" at the prompt? This is what I see:
> 
> $ keychain
> 
> KeyChain 2.6.8; http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/keychain/
> Copyright 2002-2004 Gentoo Foundation; Distributed under the GPL
> 
>  * Found existing ssh-agent (4386)
>  * Found existing gpg-agent (4651)

I get this too, but one issue remains.
Does the value GPGKEYS take 2 keys? I tried seperating the with " " and "," 
and both fails. As well as having two lines, but it only reads the first.

/M .


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