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

Paul Wise pabs at debian.org
Sat Aug 6 06:24:24 UTC 2016


On Sat, Aug 6, 2016 at 12:41 AM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:

> There are good reasons to want to have the agent running over time and
> not terminating with the individual invocations of gpg1.  In particular,
> passphrase caching and smartcard management are useful features.

I noticed after upgrading gnupg to experimental and monkeysphere to
unstable, monkeysphere now has gpg-agent processes running as root:

$ pgrep -a gpg | grep -i monk
27043 gpg-agent --homedir /var/lib/monkeysphere/authentication/core
--use-standard-socket --daemon
27061 gpg-agent --homedir /var/lib/monkeysphere/authentication/sphere
--use-standard-socket --daemon

>   systemctl --user enable dirmngr

BTW, does this make parcimonie obsolete? I noticed that dirmngr
suggests tor and the gnupg package in experimental still suggests
parcimonie.

-- 
bye,
pabs

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