[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#1053531: Bug#1053531: gnupg/gpg-agent/pinentry: timeout

[Thorsten Glaser]

Werner Koch dixit:

>> IMHO the pinentry form shouldn’t time out (or at least be reasonable
>> about it, e.g. time out after one hour, at the earliest, or so).
>
>Put a pinentry-timeout into gpg-agent.conf

Oh, okay.

>No timeout is not a good idea either
>because you will run into a related problem when you request a second
>action requiring a pinentry - that will then wait for the already open
>pinentry somewhere on another desktop.

Right, I remember running into that with pinentry-kwallet malfunctions,
but usually a pkill should suffice to fix that up (which I admit is not
something you’d tell “normal” users to do).

Thanks,
//mirabilos