[arch-general] Help with gnupg saving password for given time

[Randy]

On 06/22/2012 04:22 PM, Kevin Chadwick wrote:
>   
>> I get nothing with this command.
> Your programs will likely ignore the agent and use gpg directly
> using the password once without an environment variable.
>
> You should have the GPG_AGENT_INFO environment variable already setup as
> the third box in this link does. You can fix it quite easily but why
> it's not there already I'm not sure and is the real issue.
>
> http://www.gnupg.org/documentation/manuals/gnupg/Invoking-GPG_002dAGENT.html
>
> I presume you switched to openbox from something else which set this
> up automatically.
>
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Ok, everything is working as it should now. I originally had the 
following in my Openbox autostart file:

/envfile="${HOME}/.gpginfo"
if test -f ${envfile} && kill -0 $(cut -d: -f 2 ${envfile} | head -n 1) 
2>/dev/null; then
    eval $(cat ${envfile})
else
   eval `/usr/bin/gpg-agent --daemon --enable-ssh-support 
--write-env-file ${envfile}`
fi
export GPG_AGENT_INFO
export SSH_AUTH_SOCK
export SSH_AGENT_PID

/Apparently this isn't the correct way to do it? It would create the 
.gpginfo file ok, but I'm assuming that the export command wasn't 
working correctly. Any ideas why?

I looked at the link that you gave but I wasn't sure where to place the 
command to start the gpg-agent. I figured if I placed it in my Openbox 
autostart file, then there was the possibility of starting the agent 
more than once if logging out and back in. I tried putting it in 
.xsession but it didn't start from there because I use Slim and I 
believe that Slim doesn't call xsession. Maybe putting it in .xinitrc 
would work.

What I ended up doing was per the Arch wiki. Creating the file 
/etc/profile.d/gpg-agent.sh with the following:

/#!/bin/sh

envfile="${HOME}/.gnupg/gpg-agent.env"
if test -f "$envfile" && kill -0 $(grep GPG_AGENT_INFO "$envfile" | cut 
-d: -f 2) 2>/dev/null; then
     eval "$(cat "$envfile")"
else
     eval "$(gpg-agent --daemon --write-env-file "$envfile")"
fi
export GPG_AGENT_INFO  # the env file does not contain the export statement/

This did the trick for me.

Oh and you are correct, I switched from XFCE to Openbox.

Thanks for the help!

Randy




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