[Enigmail] Passphrase caching
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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. 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/ iEYEARECAAYFAlI0YxkACgkQ0Sr7eZJrmU53wwCgmBEQ+sj/fE7np7qt2b+YP2nz v58AoIT5klhjILc0JH62+a06xWEWBvZ/ =Y99h -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ enigmail-users mailing list enigmail-users@enigmail.net https://admin.hostpoint.ch/mailman/listinfo/enigmail-users_enigmail.net
Re: [Enigmail] Passphrase caching
-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 enigmail-users@enigmail.net https://admin.hostpoint.ch/mailman/listinfo/enigmail-users_enigmail.net
