Re: gpg-agent troubles

[kapetr]

Thanks for replay and explanation:



----- PŮVODNÍ ZPRÁVA -----
Od: "Werner Koch" <wk at gnupg.org>
Komu: "kapetr" <kapetr at mizera.cz>
Předmět: Re: gpg-agent troubles
Datum: 24.3.2011 - 21:00:17

> On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 18:40, kapetr at mizera.cz said:
> 
> > 1. gpg-agent ignores changed values in
> > ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf after
> > > SIGHUP. I have to kill/restart him ?!
> 
> Depends on the option you want to change.  Most
> are re-read after a HUP
> or with "gpgconf --reload gpg-agent" (which of
> course sends a HUP on
> Unix platforms)

The option not reloaded after HUP is "default-cache-ttl".
Why not ?

Maybe would help to update man page - to get more detailed
informations.

> 
> > 2. gpg-agent ignores "ignore-cache-for-signing"
> > in config file. I
> > > had to set "default-cache-ttl 0"  (which is for
> > all) ?
> > 
> Using GPG?  Right, it is ignored if using GPG 1.4
> or GPG 2.0.  The
> reason is that those GPG version use the agent
> only for passphrase
> caching and don't let gpg-agent do the actual
> signing.  The option works
> only if gpg-agent performs the signing (e.g. using
> gpgsm).


It sounds logical. Again ... man page.

> 
> With GnuPG 2.1 this changed, here GPG uses
> gpg-agent for the actual
> signing and thus the option should work.
> 
> > 3. pinentry do not drag mouse(keyboard yes) even
> > if there is no
> > > "no-grab". With pinentry dialog open I can still
> > work with mouse
> > 
> Depends on you pinentry.  At least for the GTK
> pinentry this was fixed
> May 2010 and released with 0.8.1 in December.

Yes - I have pinentry-gtk2 0.8.0

> 
> > I Use Ubuntu 10.10 - gpg (GnuPG) 1.4.10
> > gpg-agent cmdline:
> 
> There is no gpg-agent 1.4.x.  Run gpg-agent
> --version to see the version
> of gpg-agent.  I also suggest to use gpg2 instead
> of gpg.

gpg-agent (GnuPG) 2.0.14

> 
> 
> Salam-Shalom,
> 
> Werner

Thank you once again.

--kapetr