On Monday 03 February 2003 1:33 pm, Peter Schüller wrote: > Now I just have one problem. > > gpg-agent seems to fail to set the GPG_AGENT_INFO environment variable. I > can cut'n'paste the command it outputs to set it, and it works for regular > gnupg (if I don't, it says the agent is not available due to the lack of > GGP_AGENT_INFO (g10/passphrase.c)). > > However, if I do that before starting kmail, kmail does not seem to > propagate the environment to the child process it runs gnupg in. I.e., > exporting the variable manually doesn't help. I don't know what the right way is but i just added these lines to /usr/bin/startkde right after the echo "startkde: Starting KDE" line if [ ! `pgrep gpg-agent` ]; then eval "$(gpg-agent --daemon --default-cache-ttl 60)" fi works for me and also clears the password every minute for security purposes. -- "Under no circumstances will I ever purchase anything offered to me as the result of an unsolicited email message. Nor will I forward chain letters, petitions, mass mailings, or virus warnings to large numbers of others. This is my contribution to the survival of the online community." - Roger Ebert, "The Boulder Pledge"
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