-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 14.09.13 15:22, Bob Williams wrote: > I'm confused as to how to increase the time my passphrase is > cached. In openPGP/Preferences/Basic I have entered a value of 360 > minutes, but when I click OK, I see the following message: > > "Your system uses gpg-agent or a similar tool for passphrase > handling (gpg-agent is mandatory if GnuPG v2.0 or later is used). > Since caching of passphrases is handled by gpg-agent, the > respective timeout settings in OpenPGP are disregarded. In order to > change passphrase caching options, please configure your gpg-agent > tool." > > I therefore appended the following to the file > ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf > > default-cache-ttl 21600 > > The manpage suggests gpg-agent uses seconds rather than minutes, > hence 21600 seconds = 6 hours. It also says to remove the leading > -- from any options that are added to this file. > > However, I still get asked for my passphrase everytime I write a > signed or encrypted message. What have I missed? You can see I'm a > relative newbie to Enigmail and GPG.
Did you also change the configuration of the running gpg-agent instance? If not, then change will only be active after you restarted gpg-agent. - -Patrick -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.20 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEVAwUBUjSAIsk25cDiHiw+AQhGgggAinyBKOAZJW/f9VbVgAGo7OLhbjwjaghf jaICMzUx5WKxiHc0SZrqXVZommyQ09NGkYFQtpFTcQcdSW0HlJ4gl75gfx0+2707 czeszIcx0QFmxJjV0IHPyT5y7z572bCEdBXbmxIz/wAevfruZtACCmjXgeibRQC9 AC4rurIy1CfI2msr6yFt/oZW4z/3aH0MVzXVcD+Svj4PNPURYF5RO5ll9eOB1IQo 78DVOKRiRCZ2nYSbXYxRTxoscjyQMnZFVRaryh0lfGsYytW7H9YCBdLX5FRidJql D7Dbf5f9wNI6/9W+tcYiruhTzIgl+n+28GJffVwFxJzqUd5vpdGf8g== =pM1l -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ enigmail-users mailing list [email protected] https://admin.hostpoint.ch/mailman/listinfo/enigmail-users_enigmail.net
