On Fri 2016-10-14 15:18:40 -0400, Werner Koch wrote: > On Fri, 14 Oct 2016 19:17, ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk said: > >> authorisations, if the user types in a passphrase) have a lifetime >> limited by that of the gpg process which started the agent. > > In a new temp directory do: > > GNUPGHOME=$(pwd) gpg-agent --daemon gpg ..... > > Or whatever you want to run under gpg-agent's control. This has been > there for ages. fwiw, this doesn't work (and actually returns an error) if there is already a gpg-agent running in that $GNUPGHOME: 0 dkg@alice:/tmp/cdtemp.ofhjoX$ export GNUPGHOME=$(pwd) 0 dkg@alice:/tmp/cdtemp.ofhjoX$ gpg-connect-agent /bye gpg-connect-agent: no running gpg-agent - starting '/usr/bin/gpg-agent' gpg-connect-agent: waiting for the agent to come up ... (5s) gpg-connect-agent: connection to agent established. 2 dkg@alice:/tmp/cdtemp.ofhjoX$ ls private-keys-v1.d S.gpg-agent S.gpg-agent.rstrd trustdb.gpg pubring.kbx S.gpg-agent.brwsr S.gpg-agent.ssh 0 dkg@alice:/tmp/cdtemp.ofhjoX$ gpg-agent --daemon ls gpg-agent: a gpg-agent is already running - not starting a new one 2 dkg@alice:/tmp/cdtemp.ofhjoX$ --dkg
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