[funtoo] keychain 2.7.1 prompts for gpg passphrase on each new shell/terminal invocation

Discussion:

Jeff Kowalczyk

10 years ago

Keychain 2.7.1's managed gpg-agent is prompting for the gpg key passphrase
on each new shell/terminal invocation. keychain's ssh-agent asks just once,
given a correct passphrase.

I am using keychain 2.7.1 on Gentoo ~amd64, and recently added a single gpg
key to my .zshrc:

eval `keychain -q --eval id_rsa KEYSTRING1`

As I understand it, by not specifying --agents, both ssh-agent and
gpg-agent will be tried. gpg-agent is being started by keychain.

% gpg --list-keys
(elide one other key)
pub 2048R/KEYSTRING1 2014-06-06
uid [ultimate] email address
sub 2048R/KEYSTRING2 2014-06-06

Have I missed a step?

Thanks,
Jeff
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Jeff Kowalczyk

10 years ago

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Fixed: adding --agents ssh,gpg fixes the problem of being asked repeatedly
for the gpg passphrase:

eval `keychain -q --agents ssh,gpg --eval id_rsa KEYSTRING1`

I think gpg-agent was being found (keychain apparently started it), but new
terminal/shell invocations did not use it until --agents ssh,gpg was passed.

The keychain 2.7.1 man page :

By default keychain will build the list automatically based on
the existence of ssh-agent and/or gpg-agent on the system

% which gpg-agent
/usr/bin/gpg-agent
% which ssh-agent
/usr/bin/ssh-agent

Thanks,
Jeff

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Daniel Robbins

10 years ago

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I did try to change the code recently so that only ssh-agent is started by
default. You may want to try the version on GitHub and see if it works
better in this regard.

-Daniel

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