invoking the GPC-AGENT and to initially firing up the agent to run enigmail
hello dear linux-friends,
i currently stuck to the process "invoking the GPC-AGENT" , as a prerequisite for Thunderbird and enigmail. i am trying to initially firing up the agent to run enigmail i am currently configuring all the prerequesites for the thunderbird and enigmail at the moment i have a vanilla-installation of opensuse 12.3 on my notebook - all is fresh - no old data or credentials are used. The whole systme is new and fresh. see the following data - of the operating system and the rest of fresh installation note - i do not need to import all the mails - i only need to import the credentials. and i have managed this. so to sume up what is gained: what is on the machine; - the following things: Quote:
in KGpg all the passwords are included. By the way - i do not want to use openPGP. i prefer the usage of KGpg The question now is: how to proceed the next steps are to look for the correct installation and configuring of gnupg. Code:
martin@linux-70ce:~/perl> question: how to invoke the gnupg? and very very important for me is the question - Do i have to invoke this GPC-AGENT for one or how many user!? It is best not to run multiple instance of the gpg-agent, so you should make sure that only one is running. How to make sure that i do invoke the GPC-AGENT only one time and not twice or three times. Which steps are needet - what do i need to get enigmail up and running!? love to hear from you greetings 2 Invoking GPG-AGENT gpg-agent is a daemon to manage secret (private) keys independently from any protocol. It is used as a backend for gpg and gpgsm as well as for a couple of other utilities. The usual way to run the agent is from the ~/.xsession file: Code:
eval $(gpg-agent --daemon) If you don't use an X server, you can also put this into your regular startup file ~/.pro file or .bash_profile. It is best not to run multiple instance of the gpg-agent, so you should make sure that only one is running: gpg-agent uses an environment variable to inform clients about the communication parameters. You can write the content of this environment variable to a file so that you can test for a running agent. Here is an example using Bourne shell syntax: Code:
gpg-agent --daemon --enable-ssh-support \ In the example the optional support for the included Secure Shell agent is enabled and the information about the agent is written to a file in the HOME directory. Note that by running gpg-agent without arguments you may test whether an agent is already running; however such a test may lead to a race condition, thus it is not suggested. The second script needs to be run for each interactive session: Code:
if [ -f "${HOME}/.gpg-agent-info" ]; then see also: Invoking GPG-AGENT - Using the GNU Privacy Guard love to hear from you greetings |
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0. Add this to the end of the users ~/.xsession file: Code:
pgrep gpg-agent >/dev/null 2>&1 || Code:
pgrep gpg-agent >/dev/null 2>&1 ||\ Code:
if [ -f "${HOME}/.gpg-agent-info" ]; then Quote:
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hello dear unSpawn
many many thanks for this superb posting. You guy rock!!!! And you deserve a monster-congratulation. many many thanks for the answers and the supportive guidance. Now the probllems are solved. All runs nicely and the thunderbird works as it should. i can read the encrypted mails. So - to say it in one word,. i finally was able to port over the thunderbird with all the necessary things on a second notebook. And i am able to work with it - with enigmail and all the needed stuff. # unSpawn - you deserve a monster-congratulation. many thanks say Quote:
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