gpg-agent timeout not working

[Zach Himsel]

On 11/14/06, Werner Koch <wk at gnupg.org> wrote:
> > I use the gpg-agent to store my passphrase. The problem is that my
> > timeout is set for like 24 hours (actually, now it is 999999 seconds
> > :) ), but pinentry keeps asking for my password every 4 hours or so.
> > How would I get that to work correctly?
>
> What option did you set?
>
>   @item --default-cache-ttl @var{n}
>
>   @item --max-cache-ttl @var{n}
>
> I guess you only changed --default-cache-ttl and thus the cache entry
> will expire after 2 houer due to the --mac-cache-ttl.
You're right, I did have default-cache-ttl set instead of
max-cache-ttl. I added the max-cache-ttl entry and I will see how it
works. Thanks!

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Zach Himsel <z.himsel[at]gmail.com>
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