Agent implementation

[Werner Koch]

On Sun, 22 Sep 2002 19:20:30 +0200, Florian Weimer said:

> The patch is incomplete, see below.

Thanks.

> In addition, gpg-agent does not do what I want: I start gpg-agent on
> one terminal, and invoke gpg on some other (or even in a pipe, without
> a terminal).  gpg-agemt does not query for the passphrase on the first
> terminal, but tries to use the terminal on which GnuPG is invoked,

This is intended.  I think it would be confusing when the pinentry
pops up on another terminal and you have to switch to this terminal to
enter the passphrase - if you at all recognize that there is another
terminal waiting for an answer.

We can either add an option to gpg-agent to ignore requests to switch
the tty or DISPLAY or have an gpg option to do this.  This is terminal
and locale switching is not very well tested, so expect more bugs.

Including gpg-agent in the current GnuPG package is not easy.  We
might want to ask the Debian folks to make a gpg-agent only package.



Shalom-Salam,

   Werner