-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 14/09/13 16:26, Patrick Brunschwig wrote: > 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 >
> _______________________________________________ enigmail-users > mailing list enigmail-users@enigmail.net > https://admin.hostpoint.ch/mailman/listinfo/enigmail-users_enigmail.net > > Ah. Forgot to do that. Thank you. Bob - -- Bob Williams System: Linux 3.7.10-1.16-desktop Distro: openSUSE 12.3 (x86_64) with KDE Development Platform: 4.10.5 "release 4" Uptime: 12:00pm up 3 days 20:55, 3 users, load average: 0.54, 0.70, 0.67 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlI0g6QACgkQ0Sr7eZJrmU6nXQCgkHREeoUYr0bijC2nXtB53bmc 4/MAnA7iCMuQ1TwWAVcHCMxuXOZ75X8D =hk8X -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ enigmail-users mailing list enigmail-users@enigmail.net https://admin.hostpoint.ch/mailman/listinfo/enigmail-users_enigmail.net
