On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 9:07 AM, M. J. Everitt <m.j.ever...@iee.org> wrote: > On 14/12/16 13:53, Mike Gilbert wrote: >> On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 7:56 AM, Mart Raudsepp <l...@gentoo.org> wrote: >>> Ühel kenal päeval, K, 14.12.2016 kell 15:35, kirjutas Andrew Savchenko: >>>> This is not a workaround, but officially recommended practice, from >>>> man gpg-agent: >>>> >>>> You should always add the following lines to your .bashrc or >>>> whatever initialization file is used for all shell invocations: >>>> >>>> GPG_TTY=$(tty) >>>> export GPG_TTY >>> Then the packages or eselect pinentry or whatever should be taking care >>> of it, not have users have to mess with .bashrc to have stuff work. >> This is not practical. >> >> Adding it to the global /etc/bashrc is a bad idea. It would slow down >> every shell startup (fork/exec), even for users who do not actively >> use gpg (like root). >> >> Also, there is no way to know what shell each gpg user will be using. >> > Sounds to me like a perfect candidate for an elog/einfo, no??
Who reads those? ;-) It's not a bad idea though.
