Using shell with GPG

[Volker Kuhlmann]

On Sun 30 Mar 2008 09:08:53 NZDT +1300, Aaron Hsu wrote:

> I am hoping that maybe I can use the shell menu feature of NEdit to do some 
> things with GPG. I am thinking about the ability to select some text and 
> then sign it by passing the selection to 'gpg --clearsign -'.
>
> The problem is that GPG requires a password to verify/unlock the signature. 
> Is there anyway that I can work with this?

I believe so, if your nedit is started from a shell which sets the
GPG_AGENT_INFO variable and you have mechanisms in place which call the
specified agent on gpg's behalf. This is the default setup on Linux with
KDE (on openSUSE anyway). When gpg needs a password it will then call
its agent to get it. The gpg docs should have all the info. The default
agent shipped with gpg2 is gpg-agent.

Volker

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