On Wednesday, 27 Apr 2016 at 09:57, Julien Cubizolles wrote: > Eric S Fraga <e.fr...@ucl.ac.uk> writes: > >> I use gpg-agent in conjunction with keychain. Generally works very >> well. > > I'm trying to set it up but I'm running into problems. Could you precise > a few details: > > + do you run keychain from your ~/.profile, and so how ? If I follow the > instructions at http://www.funtoo.org/Keychain, keychain can't start > in the login screen of the display manager (lightdm on Ubuntu in my > case)
I have keychain in both my .bash_profile (for when I log in in console mode or remotely) and in my .xinitrc. The latter is used by lightdm but only when you have selected a non-standard desktop environment (not sure which setting but not one of gnome, kde, etc.). I use ratpoison... > + do you use keychain to also manage ssh keys? If so does it use a > graphical tool to ask for your passphrase ? Yes. And yes: pinentry. I should say that keychain works without fault for ssh but see below for gpg. > + how does emacs ask for the gpg passphrase: graphical (pinentry), > emacsclient or > in a minibuffer ? Sometimes, emacs will ask and usually does so in the minibuffer. I cannot answer more precisely because although I am running Debian testing on all of my systems, they all behave slightly differently when it comes to ssh and gpg key management. I obviously do not have exactly the same packages installed on all of my systems... My keychain line in my .xinitrc is: eval $(keychain --eval --agents ssh,gpg id_rsa gpgkey ) I think the gpgkey needs to be the subkey but I am not sure. My .bash_profile has essentially the same. HTH, eric -- : Eric S Fraga (0xFFFCF67D), Emacs 25.0.92.1, Org release_8.3.4-655-g9fb077
