How to start gpg-agent? / Fwd: Re: startkde script modification question

[Moritz Moeller-Herrmann]

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>  Ralf Nolden wrote:

>  > while working myself (again) through the gpg/aegypten/smime stuff for
>  > debian packages (which we at credativ where I work will use for an
>  > installation),
>  > the thing for using KMail with Aegypten  depends much on proper
>  > configuration of the system. Now; one critical thing is to make the
>  > gpg-agent start up, so

>  > http://kmail.kde.org/kmail-pgpmime-howto.html

>  > advises to start it in ~/.xsession or in startkde. I'd prefer to have a
>  > test for gpg-agent in the PATH and start it properly as the example sa=
ys
>  > during KDE startup if it is there:

>  > Before using gpg, you need to start gpg-agent:

>  > eval "$(gpg-agent --daemon)"


>  > (gpg-agent outputs a little shell script that sets the environment
>  > variable GNUPG_AGENT_INFO). You may want to add this to your ~/.xsessi=
on
>  > or startkde so that all programs see the environment variable.

> This approach sucks, IMHO, because if I start kmail via remote x (ssh -X
> user@host.com kmail), neither the bashrc nor statkde is ever used. Can't=
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> kmail just start the agent if it is not running? have the agent create a=
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> pid file somewhere in /var, and check for existance on startup...

> Environment variables suck for gui programs, there is no way to set them
> globally, once the desktop is running.

Mir brauchst du das nicht zu sagen :-) Schick das doch mal an Marc Mutz,
gpa-dev@gnupg.org und an kde-core-devel / kmail@kde.org :-)


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