Bug#239802: cabot: Make use of q-agent and agpg

Joost van Baal joostvb-debian-bugs-20040324-2@mdcc.cx
Wed, 24 Mar 2004 18:46:27 +0100


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On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 03:10:29PM +0100, Peter Palfrader wrote:
> Jan Schulz schrieb am Mittwoch, dem 24. M=E4rz 2004:
> > * Peter Palfrader wrote:
> > >> Le Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 01:30:39PM +0100, Jan Schulz =E9crivait:
> > >> > Please add an option to use q-agent, so that you don't need to=20
> > >> > type your passphrase hundred times, when doing a large keysigning=
=20
> > >> > party.
> > >Can you please summarize how q-agent works?
> >=20
> > Install quintuple-agent, start q-agent and then use agpg instead of
> > gpg :)
>=20
> Ok, we would need an optional config option to override 'gpg' and use
> that in a couple of places.
>=20
>=20
> Index: ca-dosign
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> --- ca-dosign	(revision 108)
> +++ ca-dosign	(working copy)
> @@ -158,7 +158,7 @@
> =20
> =20
>  	print "calling GnuPG\n";
> -	system('gpg', '--edit', $keyid, @ARGS, 'sign', 'save', 'quit');
> +	system('agpg', '--edit', $keyid, @ARGS, 'sign', 'save', 'quit');
>  	#system("gpg --sign-key $keyid");
> =20
>  	print "Continue? [Y/n] ";
>=20
> is one of them.  For consitancy reason we should use the configured gpg
> then in all GnuPG::Interface new calls as well, (setting call to the
> configured gpg).

Or have the user configure his environment to run agpg when the gpg
command is passed, and document this.

 mkdir $HOME/bin
 PATH=3D$HOME/bin:$PATH
 ln -s `which gpg` $HOME/bin/gpg

What do you think?

Bye,

Joost


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