Passwords are unwillingly being saved throughout session

Robert J. Hansen rjh at sixdemonbag.org
Wed Dec 1 01:43:22 CET 2010


> I hope one of you might have experienced something like this before and can give me a short hint as to where to look.

This is expected behavior.

In GnuPG 2.0 and later, passphrase caching is handled by a program called gpg-agent.  If you want to set timeouts and whatnot, that's the program you'll need to configure.

http://www.gnupg.org/documentation/manuals/gnupg/Invoking-GPG_002dAGENT.html#Invoking-GPG_002dAGENT

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