http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2493
------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-04-09 18:47 -------
I think this is a really good idea. I actually implemented this myself on my
systems before seeing this bug--it would be great to have it integrated into
Mandrake.
BTW, an IMHO slightly better way to have the gpgagent startup script work is
the following (that I stole from somewhere off the web and modified a little):
if test -f $HOME/.gpg-agent-info && kill -0 `cut -d: -f 2
$HOME/.gpg-agent-info` 2>/dev/null; then
GPG_AGENT_INFO=`cat $HOME/.gpg-agent-info`
export GPG_AGENT_INFO
else
eval `/usr/bin/gpg-agent --daemon`
echo $GPG_AGENT_INFO >$HOME/.gpg-agent-info
fi
The advantage of this is:
1) If an existing gpg-agent is already running, it doesn't kill it. (kill -0
just tests)
2) Since we store info in $HOME/.gpg-agent-info, if for some [bizarre]
reason the user is running an unrelated process called "gpg-agent", we neither
kill it (which is intrusive and wrong) nor are we confused into thinking it's
the gpg-agent we are looking for. This is the same reason that initscripts
save pids and don't just do killalls.
Again, as Pascal pointed out, this script has to be included in the context of
the Xsession--it **will not** work to put a script in xinit.d -- this actually
seems to me to be a gpg-agent bug, actually, as it should be able to support
the same semantics as ssh-agent... but that's another bugzilla bug for another
day. =)
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It would be great if gpg-agent could be automatically started at X start when people
use kmail AEGYTEN crypto plugins.
The attached patch and script I currently use could make it.
The patch ensure that if the script is installed it is run in the current shell
context
(this is very important to get the GPG_AGENT_INFO env variable available on the
desktop)
The script kills all previous gpg-agent process for the user login in and starts a new
one, exporting the correct env variable.
