[Gpg4win-devel] Controlling gpg-agent under MS Windows 7

[Dr. Peter Voigt]

Am Tue, 18 Mar 2014 17:47:29 +0100
schrieb Werner Koch <wk at gnupg.org>:

> Use the same commands as under Windows.  --reload re-reads only parts
> of the configuration file.
> 
Unfortunately, on demand starting under Linux using
gpg-connect-agent killagent /bye
fails with following error message:
"gpg-connect-agent: can't connect to the agent: IPC "connect" Aufruf
fehlgeschlagen"

> 
> That depends on how KDE is starts the agent. With 2.1 this will change
> to the same way we do it under Windows; i.e. on demand starting.  You
> can force that already today by putting the option
> 
> use-standard-socket
> 
> into gpg-agent.conf and make sure that the system does not initially
> start gpg-agent.
> 
Yeah, that's exactly what I am looking for :-) I disabled automatic
system start of gpg-agent - took some to to fiddle it out - and let
gpg-agent start on demand. This works fine with gpg/gpgsm in a shell and
with Claws Mail and with GNU Emacs/Gnus. In this mode of operation I
have to manually export SSH_AUTH_SOCK to be further able to use
gpg-agent with SSH. I have to test out where to source
~/.gnupg/agent.info and export SSH_AUTH_SOCK: I will probably use
~/.bashrc.

> 
> Shalom-Salam,
> 
>    Werner
> 
Regards,
Peter
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