Enabling smart card PIN cache ?

[Remco Post]

Bob Dunlop wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Please, what am I missing ?
> 
> I'm running gpg-agent as follows:
> 
> /usr/bin/gpg-agent --enable-ssh-support --daemon /home/XXX/.xsession
> 
> and have the appropriate enviroment variables set.
> My ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf contains:
> 
>     # Gpg-agent configuration
> 
>     # Enable SSH support (should be done on command line)
>     enable-ssh-support
> 
>     # Set two hour PIN cache timeouts
>     default-cache-ttl-ssh  7200
>     default-cache-ttl      7200
>     max-cache-ttl-ssh      7200
>     max-cache-ttl          7200
> 
>     # Allow setting of the PIN by an external agent
>     allow-preset-passphrase
> 
> I execute the equivalent of
> 
> echo "PRESET_PASSPHRASE <keygrip> -1 <pin>" | gpg-connect-agent
> 
> in a startup script and see no error.  Yet each and every call to
> ssh or scp prompts me for a PIN :(
> 
> 
> Please someone tell me the trick to enabling the PIN cache.
> 

gpg-agent for some reason does not cache pins for smartcards.... I've never
seen it work eiter.

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