[PATCH] document how to manually shut down gpg-agent
Daniel Kahn Gillmor
dkg at fifthhorseman.net
Fri Oct 14 18:42:24 CEST 2016
* doc/gpg-agent.texi: document "gpgconf --kill gpg-agent" for manual
agent termination.
This was requested in a side-comment in https://bugs.debian.org/840669
Signed-off-by: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg at fifthhorseman.net>
---
doc/gpg-agent.texi | 9 +++++++++
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
diff --git a/doc/gpg-agent.texi b/doc/gpg-agent.texi
index 7c41027..3177af4 100644
--- a/doc/gpg-agent.texi
+++ b/doc/gpg-agent.texi
@@ -85,6 +85,14 @@ gpg-connect-agent /bye
@end example
@noindent
+If you want to manually terminate the currently-running agent, you can
+safely do so with:
+
+ at example
+gpgconf --kill gpg-agent
+ at end example
+
+ at noindent
@efindex GPG_TTY
You should always add the following lines to your @code{.bashrc} or
whatever initialization file is used for all shell invocations:
@@ -1518,6 +1526,7 @@ much slower or faster than the actual box.
@ifset isman
@command{@gpgname}(1),
@command{gpgsm}(1),
+ at command{gpgconf}(1),
@command{gpg-connect-agent}(1),
@command{scdaemon}(1)
@end ifset
--
2.9.3
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