How to start gpg-agent v2.4.8 on Windows (gpg4win 4.4.1) with OpenSSH emulation?

Marco Ricci m at the13thletter.info
Tue Jan 13 09:52:12 CET 2026


Dear Werner,

apologies, I missed your reply last week.

Thus spoke Werner Koch:
>> correct, documented way to pass command-line arguments to the 
>> invocation
>> of `gpg-agent`, because I wanted to debug whether I was launching
> 
> Only if you start gpg-agent by hand and not let other compinet start it
> you can do:
> 
>   gpg-agent --verbose --enable-something --daemon
> 
> But gpg-agent may not already run as it would not start in this case.

Thank you.  This is the command-line I was looking for (for one-shot
uses in a separate terminal window), but couldn't find documented.  (I
was looking at the wrong place: syntactically, `--daemon` is an option,
but you're classifying and documenting it as a command.)

Cheers,
Marco



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