Hi Thorsten, > distracted by being asked a question, and it had terminated the > pinentry and agent, asking me for a password on stderr/tty without > pinentry, but as soon as I went to type it there, it ended up with:
The second one is the usual ssh prompt in a failed ssh-agent. > IMHO the pinentry form shouldn’t time out (or at least be reasonable > about it, e.g. time out after one hour, at the earliest, or so). Put a pinentry-timeout into gpg-agent.conf --pinentry-timeout n This option asks the Pinentry to timeout after n seconds with no user input. The default value of 0 does not ask the pinentry to timeout, however a Pinentry may use its own default timeout value in this case. A Pinentry may or may not honor this request. The default is 60 seconds, iirc. No timeout is not a good idea either because you will run into a related problem when you request a second action requiring a pinentry - that will then wait for the already open pinentry somewhere on another desktop. Shalom-Salam, Werner -- The pioneers of a warless world are the youth that refuse military service. - A. Einstein
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