GnuPG agent and non-shell application

Noiano noiano at x-privat.org
Tue Nov 13 22:36:30 CET 2007


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Hi everybody
I have GnuPg 1.4.6 installed and I have my .gnupg directory as a
symbolic link pointing to an encrypted partition. As soon as I need
my keys I mount the encrypted partition and the symbolic link is
resolved with no problem. The problem is the use of gnupg agent: I
type gpg-agent --daemon > gpg-agent-info so that the variable
information are stored to that file. Under my .bashrc I have added
the following line "source gpg-agent-info" so that the variable is
correctly set up.
The problem is the use of gnupg agent with program such as
thunderbird, kpgp. They cannot see the variable GPG_AGENT_INFO as
all shells do. I cannot set anything in .xsession because the
encrypted partition isn't mounted on boot but on demand. Could you
please tell me a reasonable solution for this matter?

Thanks

Noiano
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