Questions tagged [gpg-agent]
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GPG passphrase time-outs
Is their a means by command (or otherwise), whereby if you enter the wrong passphrase (eg 3 times) you are delayed from making further attempts, for say one hour, when the passphrase box becomes ...
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Using password-store to use a retrieved password in a bash command without displaying it, possibly in a script?
A few years ago, I read about secrets being passed to commands without displaying and in an automated or scripting manner.
Is possible to do this using pass?
I figure if it is setup in a way in which ...
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What is the difference and relation between the "--default-cache-ttl" and "--max-cache-ttl" options?
About GPG is mentioned the gpg-agent and I read the following answer:
gpg does not ask for password
Where is mentioned the --default-cache-ttl and --max-cache-ttl options. So I found this official ...
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systemd keeps restarting gpg-agent, even though gpg-agent.service and gpg-agent*.socket are masked
Goal: I am trying to kill gpg-agent (on Debian 12, if that matters) and keep it dead forever.
Aside: Why?
Because I just finished setting up GPG agent forwarding to my SSH server. Tried a few guides ...
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Decrypting multiple files quicker with gpg
The pass program is a command line utility to store passwords plus free form extra data in small files encrypted with gpg. It provides a grep sub-command in particular to find passwords by the extra ...
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How can I start the gpg-agent daemon without a user logging on to the system
I am trying to pre-cache a GPG password into gpg-agent on a headless Ubuntu 20.04 server, I would like to achieve this without a user having to log on to the system.
The aim of this pre-caching is to ...
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`gpg --pinentry-mode loopback` used to ask passphrase once but now it asks always
In short (Edit 1): How to make gpg -qd --pinentry-mode loopback out.gpg cache the passphrase for a period of time in the cli. It used to cache but now it doesn't.
Edit 2: I have tried this thing in ...
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gpg unusable secret key
gpg --list-secret-keys --keyid-format=long
shows:
sec rsa2048/588EFF3348F037FB 2013-04-25 [SCEA]
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uid [ultimate] ...
But if I try to sign a file with that key, I get:
skipped &...
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how to change/add gpg key to pass
I need to change the gpg key originally used for pass on my system to a newly generated key.
However, when I follow the advice I found on this thread: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/226944/...
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gpg-agent is not logging to file specified in `gpg-agent.conf`
Below is my gpg-agent.conf file, the log-file option specifies where to put log however even though gpg-agent works fine the log has never been created.
I'm thinking either the option is ignored or I'...
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gpg-agent "forgetting" password for key, when getting too many requests
I'm running Ubuntu (via Regolith) and my gpg key is unlocked when I log in. I'm running multiple decrypt operations in parallel and I noticed, that if I get above 7, gpg-agent will "forget" ...
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Change passphrase of SSH key stored in the gpg-agent
How do I change the passphrase of an SSH key that is stored in the gpg-agent?
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OpenGL fails to load due to nvidia driver
I have 2 video cards and installed the nvidia driver:
❯ lspci -nnk | grep -iA3 -E "(vga|NVIDIA).*(controller|GeForce)"
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation HD Graphics ...
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debian howto disable gpg-agent-browser.socket
On server there is no browser nore gui, so is it possible to disable the gpg-agent-browser.socket ?
On debian 10.13 I can see those files:
/usr/lib/systemd/user/gpg-agent.socket
/usr/lib/systemd/user/...
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Solving gpg: decryption failed: No secret key
I have encrypted a file through gpg ***.gpg --encrypt --recipient [email protected] ***
The hard disk with my Linux system where such file was encrypted has dead. I keep just the ***.gpg file in an ...
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