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On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 3:25 AM, Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote: |
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> Typically they are launched from a bash profile, or an X11 startup |
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> script. KDE/Gnome look like they have it in their default scripts. |
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> Just grep -r gpg-agent /etc and you'll find where it is being loaded |
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> if you didn't add them to your own startup scripts in /home. |
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Rich, |
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Thank you again. My bash history shows ssh-agent being executed in |
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the past, but I'm still not sure where gpg-agent came from. |
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> Using gpg-agent is considered a best practice in general, so I |
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> wouldn't go getting rid of it unless it is really causing you |
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> problems. You haven't mentioned what issue you're actually having |
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> with it/pinentry/etc. |
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FYI pinentry frustrates me because: |
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1. pinentry-gtk and pinentry-qt do not allow me to "paste" my |
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passphrase. My passphrase is difficult to type. I keep my passphrase |
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in keepass. |
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2. Supposedly pinentry-curses will let me paste; however, |
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pinentry-curses doesn't work. |
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https://www.gnupg.org/documentation/manuals/gnupg/Common-Problems.html |
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suggests that my problem is a misconfigured GPG_TTY environment |
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variable. At this point though I'm not even interested in using it |
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anymore. |
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At the moment pinentry is no longer installed on my system so these |
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"problems" should be gone. If/when I understand what is going on, |
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I'll reinstall them. |
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FYI I removed pinentry with: |
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tail /etc/portage/package.use |
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# 2014-07-05 Avoid pinentry |
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dev-vcs/git -gpg |
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mail-client/thunderbird -crypt |
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tail /etc/portage/package.mask |
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# 2014-07-05 Avoid password entry program that disallows paste |
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app-crypt/pinentry |
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Chris |
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