gpg-agent on the Mac: is it voodoo?

[Richard Bronosky]

Okay, I've finally taken the time to track down the issue.  Ultimately
I've fallen victim to over-Googling.  I was trying to apply too many
conflicting advices to my situation.  As it turns out, I can get
gpg-agent to work on my Mac if I ignore Benjamin Donnachie's
"pinentry-mac.app", and if I edit his "start gpg-agent" apple script.
I will not have the gpg-agent "primed" with my key's passphrase until
I launch a terminal the first time (and my .bashrc tries to eval the
result of `gpg -d .bash_private.gpg` into the shell env), but that's
fine for now.  Ultimately I'd like to find a method of using the apple
keychain to unlock my gpg keys for the gpg-agent.

On 9/26/07, Boey Maun Suang <boeyms at macports.org> wrote:
> Hi Richard,
>
> > I have setup dozens of Linux and FreeBSD machines with gpg-agent.
> > But, doing it on a Mac seems to be voodoo at best.  I think that
> > every howto and thread that Google turns up is missing some
> > extremely important prerequisites.  Quite honestly, I feel like I
> > am trashing my system with all the different installers I have
> > ran.  Can someone please just reply to this and encourage me that
> > it is possible?
>
> I assume that you're having trouble with the MacPorts gpg-agent port,
> which I currently maintain, though I'm no expert in using it.  Can
> you provide details of the problems that you are having with
> installing or running it, and what you would ordinarily expect to do
> to get it working on Linux and FreeBSD?
>
> Kind regards,
>
>
> Maun Suang
>
> --
> Boey Maun Suang (Boey is my surname)
> Email: boeyms at macports dot org
>
>
>
>


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