On 2021-03-18 at 13:57 +0000, Nick Cripps via Gnupg-users wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to encrypt and sign a large file. It takes a while to do > this, and I then do other things while this is happening. It then > completes and presumably asks me for my key passphrase, but I miss > this and it times out, so all I see is the following error message: > > gpg: signing failed: Timeout > gpg: file.gz: sign+encrypt failed: Timeout > > I guess that it is actually pinentry that times out, and gpg just > passes on the error from pinentry? > > How can I configure this timeout? > > My /usr/bin/pinentry on my (Gentoo) system is a symlink to > /usr/bin/pinentry-gtk-2, but since I am doing this over SSH without X > forwarding, and it is working fine (and asking me in a curses based > interface), I don't think pinentry-gtk-2 is actually the pinentry > program being used, but I don't really understand how this works TBH. > I do know that Gentoo uses Gentoo's eselect utility to manage the > /usr/bin/pinentry symlink, but it seems like gpg is smart enough to > use the appropriate version if this isn't appropriate, somehow. Can > anyone explain this, or point me to where it is explained? > > Many thanks in advance. > > Kind regards, > Nick
What are your caching preferences? I would first sign an empty/ummy file, so it asks for the passphrase and unlocks the private key, then perform the real operation (which will hopefully not require your input). Kind regards _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
