[pkg-gnupg-maint] Beware of leftover gpg-agent processes

Peter Colberg peter at colberg.org
Fri Aug 5 17:39:10 UTC 2016


On Fri, Aug 05, 2016 at 12:41:18PM -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> On desktop systems (where i'd expect the majority of secret key access
> happens), for folks who are running systemd, i recommend enabling the
> systemd user services, as documented in
> /usr/share/doc/{gnupg-agent,dirmngr}/README.Debian :
> 
>   systemctl --user enable gpg-agent
>   systemctl --user enable dirmngr

In this case one should also add

no-autostart

to ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf (or ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf-2 when using gpg1 in parallel).

Peter



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