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From: Matt Connell <matt@×××××××.tech>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What do you think about pam-gnupg?
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2023 14:30:50
Message-Id: b17a1d40ec3e29fde756acff186a3d7f8d032ecd.camel@connell.tech
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] What do you think about pam-gnupg? by efeizbudak
1 On Wed, 2023-03-01 at 09:10 -0500, efeizbudak wrote:
2 > I let mutt-wizard set a cron job which takes my password out of pass,
3 > logs into the email server and fetches my mail every 5 minutes. With
4 > this I have to unlock my key as frequently as the amount in
5 > gpg-agent.conf's default-cache-ttl setting.
6
7 I don't have any thoughts on the pam module, but I make use of some
8 scripts that rely on pass as well. For my use case I just raised the
9 TTL setting of gpg-agent to match an eight hour work day or eight hour
10 evening period and ran with it. Feels fairly natural to "log in" to
11 the agent once a day at the first use.
12
13 Disclaimer: I work from home and lock my computers when I'm away from
14 them.