Re: .authinfo.gpg and caching

[Richard Riley]

Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@gmail.com> writes:

> Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I moved to a .authinfo.gpg file recently and updated my gnus sources
>> accordingly. I can set
>> epa-file-cache-passphrase-for-symmetric-encryption to t and thats
>> fine. But suppose I want to encrypt with a key? epa doesn't seem to talk
>> to my gpg-agent. Is this as designed? Or should it cache? With no
>> caching each time I refresh gnus I have to type in my key password for
>> each and every machine accessed each time.
>>
>> thanks for any info,
>>
>> r.
>
> OK, I found the reason . the Environmental GPG_AGENT_INFO is nil. I added 
>
> if test -f $HOME/.gpg-agent-info &&    kill -0 `cut -d: -f 2 
> $HOME/.gpg-agent-info` 2>/dev/null; then
>     export GPG_AGENT_INFO=`cat $HOME/.gpg-agent-info`
> else
>     eval `gpg-agent --daemon`
>     echo $GPG_AGENT_INFO >$HOME/.gpg-agent-info
> fi
>
> to my .gnomerc. But emacs still reports it to be nil. If I open
> .gpg-agent-info and setenv GPG_AGENT_INFO then it all works. Its value
> is also correct in a shell. But even emacs started from a shell say its
> nil.
>
> So what could be stopping emacs seeing this env?

LOL. I win "blind as a bat award". What could be stopping it? How about
this:

(setenv "GPG_AGENT_INFO" nil)

which was a suggested fix for removing the GUI pinentry for emacs23 from
the wiki.

Whoops. And sorry for the noise.