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| author | Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org> | 2010-10-14 18:34:31 +0200 |
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| committer | Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org> | 2010-10-14 18:34:31 +0200 |
| commit | 764e88d4df29204be6ea2206cf753c56ec0f5b5f (patch) | |
| tree | d38aa151706b32ce1ddbec2e7f012d317618072a /doc/gpg-agent.texi | |
| parent | Some tweaks to the agent startup. (diff) | |
| download | gnupg2-764e88d4df29204be6ea2206cf753c56ec0f5b5f.tar.xz gnupg2-764e88d4df29204be6ea2206cf753c56ec0f5b5f.zip | |
All tests work are again working
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/gpg-agent.texi | 14 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/gpg-agent.texi b/doc/gpg-agent.texi index d504d2a99..02a2c28a9 100644 --- a/doc/gpg-agent.texi +++ b/doc/gpg-agent.texi @@ -485,7 +485,7 @@ pinentry to pop up at the @code{tty} or display you started the agent. @item --enable-ssh-support @opindex enable-ssh-support -Enable emulation of the OpenSSH Agent protocol. +Enable the OpenSSH Agent protocol. In this mode of operation, the agent does not only implement the gpg-agent protocol, but also the agent protocol used by OpenSSH @@ -512,10 +512,20 @@ has been started. To switch this display to the current one, the following command may be used: @smallexample -echo UPDATESTARTUPTTY | gpg-connect-agent +gpg-connect-agent updatestartuptty /bye @end smallexample +Although all GnuPG components try to start the gpg-agent as needed, this +is not possible for the ssh support because ssh does not know about it. +Thus if no GnuPG tool which accesses the agent has been run, there is no +guarantee that ssh is abale to use gpg-agent for authentication. To fix +this you may start gpg-agent if needed using this simple command: +@smallexample +gpg-connect-agent /bye +@end smallexample + +Adding the @option{--verbose} shows the progress of starting the agent. @end table |