gpg-connect-agent querying max-cache-ttl

[Rob Fries]

Peter,

Thanks for the reply, but this is what Patrick and I discussed of ticket.

> You're mistaken; it's as Patrick said through gpgconf, the program to programmatically query the configuration.

But I am not looking for the value in the "configuration", I am looking for the "time remaining" until a passphrase expires.

If I set my max-cache-ttl to 5 days:

$ echo $((60*60*24*5))
432000

I can retrieve that value here:

$ gpgconf --list-options gpg-agent|grep ^max-cache-ttl: |cut -d: -f 8,10
7200:432000

Then I set my passphrase:

$ gpg-preset-passphrase -cP <PASSPHRASE> $key

I am looking for the "time remaining" until I am required to re-enter that passphrase. Gpgconf will only give me what is configured as the max:

$ gpgconf --list-options gpg-agent|grep ^max-cache-ttl: |cut -d: -f 8,10
7200:432000
$ gpgconf --list-options gpg-agent|grep ^max-cache-ttl: |cut -d: -f 8,10
7200:432000
$ gpgconf --list-options gpg-agent|grep ^max-cache-ttl: |cut -d: -f 8,10
7200:432000

In 5 days, I am looking for that value to be 1 day or 86400 seconds so that I can trigger an alert.

I hope that clarifies everything.

Thanks!
-Rob

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