Andrew McGlashan (12019-11-01): > If I understand correctly, the agent is getting in your way. > > Killing the agent /might/ be your answer: Unfortunately no: using the agent is mandatory since 2.1: if I kill the agent, it comes back. > I think your private key has a pass phrase, but the agent is providing > the answer without you needing to and that gives you the impression > that it isn't protected. No, in the particular issue I am having right now, the key has no pass phrase, and I want to add one while exporting without ever touching the original file. > If it isn't gpg's agent that is getting in your way, it might be the > gnome keyring daemon instead. dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /usr/bin/gnome-keyring-daemon > If you kill all agents to stop them interfering, then use the > - --homedir option of gpg with a copy of your files, I think you will > have what you need. That would have worked with gpg < 2.1. With >= 2.1, it will ignore the homedir option and connect to an agent. Or re-start an agent, with or without the homedir option. I do not know what gpg does exactly, it does not tell me. For handling something as precious as a private key, this is unacceptable. Regards, -- Nicolas George
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