How to tell the gpg agent to forget a passphrase

Todd Zullinger tmz at pobox.com
Thu Mar 16 17:54:53 CET 2006


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Olaf Gellert wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> is there any documentation on the commands that the
> gpg agent understands?

info gnupg has documentation on gpg-agent.  I'm not sure if it has all
that you're looking for, but it should be a good start.

> I am usign gpg agent with Mozilla/Enigmail. This works
> fine. One thing that I am missing is how to tell the
> agent to forget the stored passphrases.

Send the agent a SIGHUP.  That will clear all stored passphrases.

> By the way: What does "--enable-ssh- support" do? Sounds
> like acting as a replacement for the ssh-agent?

It is.  The info page has an example for how to do this.

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