http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5259
Product: newpg
Component: program
Summary: gpg-agent should support ssh-agent-like 'exec'ing
Product: newpg
Version: 0.9.4-2mdk
Platform: Other
OS/Version: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: enhancement
Priority: P2
Component: program
AssignedTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ReportedBy: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
One of the greatest things about ssh-agent is that it can exec another program
transparently. I *often* end up running things like:
ssh-agent startx
or
ssh-agent bash
... in fact, Mandrake's init scripts are smart enough to ssh-agent your whole
session this way if it's installed. This is wonderful!
gpg-agent, on the other hand, is a little trickier to use. It operates in the
other mode that ssh-agent supports, which is to daemonize and spit out an
environment variables. This works okay, but to get the above uses, I have to
do:
eval `gpg-agent --daemon` && startx
and then when X exists, if I wanted gpg-agent to only live for the scope of
that session, I have to now find and kill it. Or save the pid and kill that,
or do a messy killall.
Accordingly, if I want to *only* have a gpg-agent work for the life of a
shell, I have to do something like:
eval `gpg-agent --daemon` && bash && killall gpg-agent
So, SUGGESTION:
Let's support
gpg-agent startx
or
gpg-agent bash
gpg-agent in this case can work like ssh-agent does. Set up it's environment
internally, then fork and exec the given command, then when that process ends,
exit. Thus, we have a nice encapsulated contex for gpg-agent with a known
lifespan, without any external messiness.
This also means I could now easily do:
gpg-agent ssh-agent startx
or
ssh-agent gpg-agent bash
This is very clean and nice. =)
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