Re: How to use terminal to change mac-cache-ttl
Mr. Hansen:
Thank you very much. Looks like alter agent will not work with Snow
Leopard. As soon as I upgrade to Lion I will give it a try. Thanks for
helping out a novice!
Bill
Robert J. Hansen-3 wrote:
>
> On 10/12/11 11:44 AM, Vortran66 wrote:
>> Thanks for all your effort. I realize now that changing the cache
>> values involves a little more than changing a few values and that I
>> am probably in way over my head.
>
> It involves editing a couple of configuration files by hand, and
> requires you to be a little comfortable with the command-line, yes.
> This much is true. :)
>
>> I am basically just a dumb user
>
> This much is totally bogus. :)
>
>> who has no real experience programming other than a little COBAL back
>> in college 25 years ago (don't laugh).
>
> Laughing at COBOL is sort of like laughing at the Great Pyramids of
> Egypt: it tells you a lot more about the person doing the laughing than
> it does about COBOL. Speaking just for myself, I don't laugh at apps
> that have been running for five decades without a crash.
>
>> I read the agent-alter PDF and I get the gist of what it does. My
>> problem is I really unfamiliar with using terminal.
>
> That's not for you, friend. :) My goal is to give you a tool you can
> easily use to solve your problem. That PDF was meant more for other
> people to review and tell me, "no, you're doing it wrong, you
> should...". (And that was very much worthwhile: Werner pointed me
> towards the gpgconf tool, which simplified things a lot.)
>
> Anyway. You might want to take a look at:
>
> http://keyservers.org/~rjh/AlterAgent.zip
>
> Download it, unzip it, and within there will be an OS X app called
> "AlterAgent." Double-click and you might just get the solution to your
> problem. It might also crash horribly.
>
> *I've only tested it on my own machine.* No warranties express or
> implied, etc., etc. If it breaks you get to keep both parts.
>
> If you have feedback ("it's great, you're so cool!", or "my Mac is now
> on fire and it's all your fault!"), please send it to me directly: don't
> spam the list with it, please. Thanks. :)
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Re: How to use terminal to change mac-cache-ttl
Robert J. Hansen-3 wrote: > > On 10/5/11 7:55 PM, Vortran66 wrote: >> I have a very limited knowledge of using terminal in Mac. Can someone >> tell >> me what commands I would need to enter to do this. > > > The good news is that I've put together a small Python script that will > (hopefully) make things a little easier on you. Give me a day or two to > do more bughunting, and once it's done it should be pretty easy on you > to edit these values. > > http://keyservers.org/~rjh/agent-alter-1.0.tar.bz2 > http://keyservers.org/~rjh/agent-alter-code.pdf > http://keyservers.org/~rjh/agent-alter.pdf > > You'll need Norman Ramsey's Noweb package installed in order to rebuild > from the Noweb source, but you can also just look inside src/ to get a > pre-extracted version (named "agent-alter"). Alternately, just read the > two PDFs. Any and all bug finds gratefully accepted. > > > ___ > Gnupg-users mailing list > Gnupg-users@gnupg.org > http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users > > Mr Hansen: Thanks for all your effort. I realize now that changing the cache values involves a little more than changing a few values and that I am probably in way over my head. I am basically just a dumb user who has no real experience programming other than a little COBAL back in college 25 years ago (don't laugh). I read the agent-alter PDF and I get the gist of what it does. My problem is I really unfamiliar with using terminal. To use agent-alter do I just copy the code from the PDF and paste into terminal or is more involved? I understand how to change the cache values in agent-alter but beyond that I am pretty clueless. If there are a few monkey-see monkey-do steps that I need to do to implement alter-agent could you let me know what they are. If it is more involved than that or if it is something I could easily screw up my system not knowing what I am doing let me know and I will search for another encryption solution. Is there another front end to GnuPG besides GPG Tools that would allow me to limit the time a password is cached? I am using a mac running os x. I am using GPG Tools, Keychain Access Version 0.8.13 (0.8.13) Bill -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/How-to-use-terminal-to-change-mac-cache-ttl-tp32599099p32639372.html Sent from the GnuPG - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
How to use terminal to change mac-cache-ttl
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After opening file with GPG Tools any file can be opened w.o. pwd
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