Re: gpg in KDE, passphrase window, passphrase timeout (SOLVED)

[Giorgos Pallas <gpall@ccf.auth.gr>]

Gilles Mocellin wrote:
> Le Monday 27 August 2007 20:06:54 Giorgos Pallas, vous avez écrit :
>   
>> I'm a little confused: I use gpg from the console and when asking for my
>> passphrase
>> , it raises a KDE window and prompts me to type it there. Why? I also
>> would like gpg to cache the passphrase for a certain period of time so
>> that I don't have to type it again and again. Any ideas?
>>
>> G.
>>     
>
> You certainly have gpg-agent installed and running.
> The configuration .gnupg/gpg-agent.conf tells which program to launch to ask
> password.
> I have "pinentry-program /usr/bin/pinentry-qt" for a kde window.
>   

Thanks for the answers guys, that  was the answer to the question.
I set the the
default-cache-ttl xxx
max-cache-ttl xxx

options and all is fine now.

G.