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Package: gnupg-agent
Version: 2.0.28-2
Severity: importatn
This is a followup for the changes I made in gnome-keyring to use
pinentry-gnome3 and gpg-agent [1]
We have important regressions with the new setup:
A default ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf does not set "use-agent".
As a result, /etc/X11/Xsession.d/90gpg-agent won't start a gpg-agent on
session login.
a/ without a running gpg-agent, gpg v2 doesn't cache any passwords. It
spawns a gpg-agent process on demand, so we at least get a
pinentry-gnome3 based prompt.
b/ without "use-agent", gpg v1 will also not use gpg-agent/pinentry-gnome3
at all, but fall back to prompt directly on the console.
Regarding gpg v2 I'm surprised that "use-agent" is still necessary.
At least "man gpg2" says that --use-agent is a dummy, since gnupg agent
is mandatory
Any clever idea how we can address this? Should we start gpg-agent
unconditionally in /etc/X11/Xsession.d/90gpg-agent? This would at least
address a/.
Regards,
Michael
[1] https://bugs.debian.org/760102
-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (200, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.0.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages gnupg-agent depends on:
ii libassuan0 2.2.1-1
ii libc6 2.19-18
ii libgcrypt20 1.6.3-2
ii libgpg-error0 1.19-2
ii libpth20 2.0.7-20
ii libreadline6 6.3-8+b3
ii pinentry-curses [pinentry] 0.9.4-2
ii pinentry-gnome3 [pinentry] 0.9.4-2
Versions of packages gnupg-agent recommends:
ii gnupg 1.4.19-3
ii gnupg2 2.0.28-2
gnupg-agent suggests no packages.
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Version: 2.2.40-1
On 2015-07-07 Daniel Kahn Gillmor <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri 2015-07-03 16:43:34 -0400, Michael Biebl wrote:
> > This is a followup for the changes I made in gnome-keyring to use
> > pinentry-gnome3 and gpg-agent [1]
> >
> > We have important regressions with the new setup:
> > A default ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf does not set "use-agent".
> > As a result, /etc/X11/Xsession.d/90gpg-agent won't start a gpg-agent on
> > session login.
> >
> > a/ without a running gpg-agent, gpg v2 doesn't cache any passwords. It
> > spawns a gpg-agent process on demand, so we at least get a
> > pinentry-gnome3 based prompt.
> >
> > b/ without "use-agent", gpg v1 will also not use gpg-agent/pinentry-gnome3
> > at all, but fall back to prompt directly on the console.
> >
> > Regarding gpg v2 I'm surprised that "use-agent" is still necessary.
> > At least "man gpg2" says that --use-agent is a dummy, since gnupg agent
> > is mandatory
> >
> > Any clever idea how we can address this? Should we start gpg-agent
> > unconditionally in /etc/X11/Xsession.d/90gpg-agent? This would at least
> > address a/.
> with 2.1.x (now in experimental, hopefully to move to unstable later
> this week), gpg2 will resolve (a) by starting a long-running gpg-agent
> process instead of a short-lived one.
I am closing this report since it does not apply anymore.
/etc/X11/Xsession.d/90gpg-agent does not start the agent anymore,
systemd does.
cu Andreas
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