Problems with gnome-keyring et al. (was: Card only available to root user)

[Luis de Bethencourt]

On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 01:29:04PM +0200, Luis de Bethencourt wrote:
> So I found a solution \o/
> 
> If I do:
> unset GPG_AGENT_INFO
> 
> then the card works for my user, unfortunately it only does work in terminals.
> It does launch pinentry-gtk-2 when I sign an email with mutt, and so that
> covers my usecase :)
> 
> Thanks to all!
> Luis

So the way of having this fixed system wide is:

for just all terminals, include the unset GPG_AGENT_INFO in ~/.bashrc

If running GNOME, launch gnome-session-properties, look for "GPG Password Agent"
(which uses GNOME Keyring) and deactivate it.

Thanks,
Luis
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