Stop gpg-agent after inactivity time

Werner Koch wk at gnupg.org
Mon Sep 5 07:57:04 CEST 2016


On Sun,  4 Sep 2016 20:10, alec at alec.pl said:

> If I have a hundred gpg-agent processes, will that kill all of them? How

No.  gpgconf will only kill the one for the current homedir.

> to kill gpg-agent for specified homedir. Or should/could I just remove
> socket file? What if the agent is used by another process?

gpg-agent will then cleanup itself within the next minute.


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner


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