On Sunday 25 February 2007 05:02:21 pm Bruno Costacurta wrote: > Hello, > > how to setup, start and test gpg-agent ? Here's what I did: 1) install gnupgp2 if you have'nt yum install gnupgp2 2) In ~/.gnugpg/create a file gpg-agent.cong with this pinentry-program /usr/bin/pinentry-qt no-grab default-cache-ttl 18000 2b) append to ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf cat >> ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf use-agent 3) if using kde then drop this in ~/.kde/env cat > ~/.kde/env/gpg-agent-start.sh #!/bin/bash if [ -z "${GPG_AGENT_INFO}" -a -x /usr/bin/gpg-agent -a -f ${HOME}/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf ]; then ## If you're paranoid about stale agents running (possible kde crash) uncomment killall line: ## NOTE: a root login will kill *all* users' gpg-agents killall gpg-agent eval "$(/usr/bin/gpg-agent --daemon)" fi If using gnome there must be something similar to have things start - i gave up on gnome several years ago but I'm sure there is. Logout and back in to get the agent started and you should be in business.