On ven, 2008-04-25 at 17:51 -0300, Goedson Teixeira Paixao wrote: > Em Sex, 2008-04-25 às 15:58 +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez escreveu: > > Well, I dont know how seahorse work. But if you start seahorse and if it > > exports the GPG_AGENT_INFO, all apps assume there is a gpg agent running. In > > this case, evo wont use it's internal popup to ask you the passphrase, but > > will pass this to $GPG_AGENT. > > Seahorse does export GPG_AGENT_INFO but evolution won't use the GPG > agent unless we set use-agent in ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf
Mhmh ok. > > > Afaict, it's the agent responsibility to make sure user can enter the > > passphrase. gnupg-agent Recommends pinentry, and I dont know about other > > agents. > > Agreed. So seahorse should recommend pinentry-gtk2. But I think it is > the responsibility of the application to make sure the agent will be > called when needed. Evo shouldn't require the agent running. If it is (detected via the use-agent and GPG_AGENT_INFO), fine, use it. It not, fallback. > if I unset GPG_AGENT_INFO and then launch evolution, it won't ask me for > a password when trying to sign a message and fails the same way as > before. _That_ is weird. Afaik it should fallback to the integrated one. I'll try to investigate and report back. -- Yves-Alexis
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