[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#1101471: starting of agent for system accounts is inacceptable

Marc Haber mh+debian-packages at zugschlus.de
Mon Mar 31 20:53:41 BST 2025


On Mon, Mar 31, 2025 at 05:44:44PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote:
>just to clarify: we are not starting gpg-agent automatically on login. We
>are shipping systemd user session units to lauch gpg-agent under
>systemd's monitoring when gpg *needs* an agent. The other way to do this
>is to let gpg itself start a gpg-agent as a long running daemon the first
>time it needs it.

It is probably enough to have an ssh-agent running on the side of the 
ssh client to invoke a gpg agent on the server side? I am not using gpg 
in any way here.

Greetings
Marc


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