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> On Monday 19 September 2005 04:51, Christian Parpart wrote: |
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>> Hi, |
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>> well, I never played with encrypted messages, however, somehow, |
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>> I required to receive one some recently but failed in decrypting |
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>> with message "bad passphrase" - and indeed, kmail didn't ask me |
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>> for one. |
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>> Though, I installed gpg-agent, but kmail hints me (in some self tests |
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>> afterwards), that gpg-agent doesn't seem to run (which is not true |
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>> anyway)... |
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>> Has anyone who has this working a good hint for me here? |
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>> I'm out of ideas... |
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> gpg-agent should not only be running. The problem is that kmail must be |
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> able to find it. For this gpg-agent outputs some bash code that would set |
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> an environment variable. If kmail does not see this variable, it cannot |
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> find gpg-agent (indeed, broken behaviour). Assuming you use gdm or kdm to |
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> start your session you would need to add this code to your ~/.xprofile |
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> 'eval "`gpg-agent --daemon 2`"; export GPG_AGENT_INFO' |
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> without the single quotes. You might want to add some code to prevent |
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> multiple gpg-agent instances running, but the above is sufficient. |
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(i'm currently at work, though can't test) |
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I'm running no DM, I rather use startx and have keychain set up for |
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ssh-agent use, though, just extended the cmd line to --agents ssh,gpg (was |
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--agents ssh) within my .bash_profile. |
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The question is: why does kmail not ask me for a passphrase when no |
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gpg-agent is available anyway? |
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Regards, |
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Christian Parpart. |
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