[vox-tech] gpg-agent issues

[Richard Crawford]

I'm trying to get gpg-agent running on my FC3 laptop so that I don't have to 
type in my passphrase each time I send out an e-mail.  Unfortunately, when I 
try to start gpg-agent with the command:

$ gpg-agent

I get the following error message:

gpg-agent: can't connect to '/home/richard/.gnupg/S.gpg-agent': No such file 
or directory
gpg-agent: no gpg-agent running in this session

When I execute

$ ps aux | grep gpg

I see:

richard 7975 0.0 0.1 5632 860 ? Ss Dec15 0:00 gpg-agent --daemon

which makes me think that a gpg-agent actually is running.

When, for kicks and giggles, I try to execute:

$ gpg-agent --daemon

I get this error message:

can't connect to '/home/richard/.gnupg/log-socket': No such file or directory
GPG_AGENT_INFO=/tmp/gpg-4p6U8v/S.gpg-agent:10175:1 export GPG_AGENT_INFO;

...even though there is a file in /home/richard/.gnupg called log-socket.  
However, that file appears to be empty.  Also, when I again execute

$ ps aux | grep gpg

after invoking the gpg-agent daemon, I see another instance is running.

I don't know for sure, but my guess is that when I invoke the daemon, it 
creates a temporary file in the /tmp directory containing information about 
the session.  It then puts that information into the log-socket file in 
the .gnupg subdirectory.  Then when I attempt to invoke gpg-agent, it reads 
that information from the log-socket file.  The reason it's looking for the 
S.gpg-agent file in the .gnupg directory instead of the /tmp/whatever 
directory is because the log-socket file was not properly created, so the 
proper path was not found.  Am I right about this?

How can I fix this?  I've messed with permission settings on log-socket, on 
the .gnupg subdirectory (not much, since I want to keep it secure), and on 
the /tmp subdirectory, but that doesn't seem to help.  And a search of Google 
brings up very little that is relevant or is written in German (which I don't 
read, unfortunately).

Anyone have any ideas?

-- 
Richard S. Crawford
http://www.mossroot.com
AIM:  Buffalo2K    Yahoo: rscrawford
"Whatever does not kill me makes me stranger."
--Llewellyn

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