kmail and gnupg problems (gpg-agent)

[Francesco Di Muccio]

Alle 08:22, lunedì 6 settembre 2004, Christian Mueller ha scritto:
> Am Montag, 6. September 2004 03:43 schrieb Zé:
> > At this moment i am using kmail-1.7 and i when i try to sign a message
> > digitally appears this dialong:
> >
> > This dialog will reappear every time the passphrase is needed. For a more
> > secure solution that also allows caching the passphrase, install
> > gpg-agent. gpg-agent of gnupg-1.9, wich you can download from
> > http://www.gnupg.org/download
> >
> > But i have gnupg-1.9 in my sistem and gpg-agent is running in the
> > background.
> >
> > Other thing wierd is than kgpg is started always appear a dialog saying
> > that the use og GnuPG Agent is active by default in the config file, but
> > says that the agent appears not to be running wich is complectly false,
> > gpg-agent is running.
> > So why constantly appears this message when i run Kgpg, and why isnt
> > possible to cache the passphrase, always needed to enter it when sending
> > a message digitally signed in Kmail-1.7?
>
> It seems that the place you start the gpg-agent is incorrect.  In order to
> find the agent the variable GNUPG_AGENT_INFO must be set that contains the
> info on where to find it.

It seems to not be GNUPG_AGENT_INFO but GPG_AGENT_INFO.

> Your apps must see this environment variable or you'll have the problem
> you're describing:  The agent is running but your apps say it doesn't.
> Just starting the agent "somewhere" is unfortunately not enough.  You have
> to do it in the correct place so the environment variable propagates to all
> of KDE.
>
> Read the section about the gpg-agent in
> http://kmail.kde.org/kmail-pgpmime-howto.html
> There's a description on how to do it.
>
>
> One remark:  Please don't crosspost your questions to more than one
> newsgroup.
>
> Regards,
> Christian Müller.
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