From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general,gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Small patch to enable use of gpg-agent with pgg Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 03:28:30 +0900 Message-ID: <87wteq70hd.fsf@catnip.gol.com> References: <2cd46e7f0510031250u66ea1349yb437d539ce4027ef@mail.gmail.com> <2cd46e7f0510061541w73bb6a92wb6d22829b6e804ae@mail.gmail.com> <20051007100014.GB4850@kenny.sha-bang.local> <2cd46e7f0510071106k3d4d3e6agc36f16a37d8b6bc6@mail.gmail.com> <20051007214952.GA30235@kenny.sha-bang.local> <20051008103627.GA1218@kenny.sha-bang.local> <2cd46e7f0510081131h14e2bbeaga7f1a33ebd6347c8@mail.gmail.com> <2cd46e7f0510101415t76825ea7u9749fe23da54ce@mail.gmail.com> <2cd46e7f0510121647x3c51fb65pc883ed61f4e864ab@mail.gmail.com> <2cd46e7f0510200708x4640d1c2t50743cf439e52dd4@mail.gmail.com> <877j6rxre3.fsf@rimspace.net> <878xr78dn2.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <87pskjw101.fsf@rimspace.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1142792980 20361 80.91.229.2 (19 Mar 2006 18:29:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2006 18:29:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+m10830@lists.math.uh.edu Sun Mar 19 19:29:36 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FL2em-0000fI-B8 for ding-account@gmane.org; Sun, 19 Mar 2006 19:29:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1FL2eh-0001HM-00; Sun, 19 Mar 2006 12:29:31 -0600 Original-Received: from nas01.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.39]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1FL2dx-0001HG-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 19 Mar 2006 12:28:45 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by nas01.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FL2dv-0003YG-8p for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 19 Mar 2006 12:28:44 -0600 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1FL2dt-0001rC-00 for ; Sun, 19 Mar 2006 19:28:41 +0100 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1FL2ds-0000X5-L7 for ding@gnus.org; Sun, 19 Mar 2006 19:28:40 +0100 Original-Received: from 203-216-99-017.dsl.gol.ne.jp ([203.216.99.17]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 19 Mar 2006 19:28:40 +0100 Original-Received: from miles by 203-216-99-017.dsl.gol.ne.jp with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 19 Mar 2006 19:28:40 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 203-216-99-017.dsl.gol.ne.jp System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu Cancel-Lock: sha1:tLYUi8PUgQkvsph6Un8OVTkZB1E= X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) Precedence: bulk Original-Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:62303 gmane.emacs.devel:51857 Archived-At: Daniel Pittman writes: > Hrm. According to the documentation I have here, '--use-agent' will > first try to contact the agent, and will then ask for a passphrase if > that fails. It does, but it doesn't really work very well -- it must use some different mechanism than the ordinary (no agent specified at all) case because it only prompts once (doesn't re-prompt if you give a wrong password) and seems generally seems more flaky (fails in more cases, e.g., given other options that ordinarily don't preclude password entry). -Miles -- Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra. Suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night the ice weasels come. --Nietzsche