Can't enter passphrase in su session.

[Chris Babcock]

On Wed, 20 May 2009 20:00:42 +0100
mike _ <arizonagroovejet at gmail.com> wrote:

> Can anyone offer any insight in this issue?

http://www.joshstaiger.org/archives/2005/07/bash_profile_vs.html

In .bash_profile, you will have something *like* this:
if test -f $HOME/.gpg-agent-info &&    kill -0 `cut -d: -f 2 $HOME/.gpg-agent-info`\
2>/dev/null; then
     GPG_AGENT_INFO=`cat $HOME/.gpg-agent-info`
     export GPG_AGENT_INFO
else
     eval `/usr/bin/gpg-agent --daemon`
     echo $GPG_AGENT_INFO >$HOME/.gpg-agent-info
fi

You *may* have something like this:

if [ -f /etc/bashrc ]; then
        . /etc/bashrc
fi


The code to launch gpg-agent needs to be in .bashrc if you want it to
execute for su users. If your .bash_profile executes your .bashrc as
above then you can remove the definition from .bash_profile.

Chris Babcock


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