GPG Agent -- SOLVED

Trejkaz · Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2004 11:55 pm Post subject: GPG Agent -- SOLVED

Is there a working GPG agent anywhere in Gentoo? I'm dissatisfied with quintuple-agent due to its apparent inability to kill itself when I'm done with it (ssh-agent has a -k option, quintuple-agent has no apparent equivalent), and when I ask people where to get a GPG agent they say "Isn't gpg-agent included as part of gnupg?"

Well, it isn't part of app-crypt/gnupg, at least not on 1.2.3-r5.

Is it supposed to be? I don't even know if this is a bug until I know whether gpg-agent is supposed to ship with gnupg. :-)

der Mosher · Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2004 1:16 am Post subject:

gpg-agent is part of newpg. It will only compile if dev-libs/libgcrypt is < 1.1.91 (i have 1.1.12). Now, if you can tell me where I have to start gpg-agent so that kgpg will recognize it?

René
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Trejkaz · Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2004 1:47 am Post subject:

That I can't say until I get gpg-agent installed.

But, what I do with ssh-agent, is in my .xinitrc file (I login on the framebuffer console and startup X using 'startx') I have "eval `ssh-agent -s`" before the spot where I run KDE, and "eval `ssh-agent -k`" afterwards. You can also use "ssh-agent /usr/kde/3.1/bin/startkde" which is simpler, actually I have no idea why I don't just do it this way instead.

Assuming gpg-agent is similar it should be possible using one or the other method.

der Mosher · Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2004 4:44 am Post subject:

I've got it running now. I inserted the script from https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13573#c7 at the beginning of /usr/kde/3.2/bin/startkde . I had to modify one line:

PROG=`ps -p ${CHECK_PID} |tail -1| sed -e "s,^ *[^ ]* *[^ ]* *[^ ]* *,,"`

(notice the added " *" at the beginning of the sed command)

René
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Trejkaz · Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2004 5:48 am Post subject:

I see. This script is a bit messy compared to the relatively clean ssh-agent. It doesn't kill the agent when it's finished with, which is undesirable in my mind but I guess I can live with it. At least it does check whether one is already running and uses its information instead of spawning a new one each time.

plate · Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2004 10:12 pm Post subject:

Been scratching my head over this one ever since I successfully emerged KDE 3.2. The thing is, in spite of being part of my .xinitrc, the gpg-agent never gets to run before startkde is executed. When I run Paul de Vrieze's gpg-agent.sh (both with and without your extra asterisk, der Mosher), I'm getting a

Trejkaz · Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2004 10:28 pm Post subject:

That shell script probably just has to be run through dos2unix to work. :-)

Edit: hang around a bit actually, I'll post my solution in a second, just have to write up the instructions.

Trejkaz · Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2004 10:36 pm Post subject:

SOLUTION

I will proceed with a solution for the lazy folk who don't necessarily care if there are multiple copies of an agent running on the system. This solution will allow you to use the agent whenever your X session is running, a similar solution can be adapted to make it work in remote SSH sessions and console logins, but then you might want the more sophisticated script in order to prevent multiple copies of the agent running. :-)

As has been mentioned: