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Gumper

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From: U.S.A.

Registered: 2009-10-26

Posts: 132

GPG passphrase timeout

I just created a gpg key and I'm using it to encrypt my Kmymoney file. When I open up kmymoney I have to enter my passphrase to open up the file. If I close the program and immediately open up the file once again in kmymoney, it does not ask me for the passphrase. After an undetermined amount of time I go back into kmymoney and open the file, this time it will ask me for the passphrase. So it appears that there must be a configuration somewhere to set the amount of time before I have to enter the passphase again.

Do anyone know where I might go about setting this timer or any other settings that might effect this? I'm using kde4.3.4 on Arch 64. I looked in KGpg but I don't see anything.

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Gumper

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From: U.S.A.

Registered: 2009-10-26

Posts: 132

Re: GPG passphrase timeout

I figured this out. Apparently "gpg-agent" is running on my machine which caches entered passwords for the encrypted files. The default timeout for entered passwords with this is 10 minutes. A config file can be placed in ~/.gnupg called "gpg-agent.conf" where you can then adjust this time with the line "default-cache-ttl 60". In this example the timeout is set to 1min.

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MercuryShadow

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From: Chciago 'burbs

Registered: 2010-01-04

Posts: 29

Re: GPG passphrase timeout

I was just about to ask you about gpg-agent, before I read your second post. Glad to see you got it figured out.

SodaCris

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Registered: 2020-09-19

Posts: 1

Re: GPG passphrase timeout

I figured this out. Apparently "gpg-agent" is running on my machine which caches entered passwords for the encrypted files. The default timeout for entered passwords with this is 10 minutes. A config file can be placed in ~/.gnupg called "gpg-agent.conf" where you can then adjust this time with the line "default-cache-ttl 60". In this example the timeout is set to 1min.

That was great! it helps me solve my problem!

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 59,898

Re: GPG passphrase timeout

So you registered to empty post and didn't even have the decency to wait 50 days to celebrate the 15-year aniversary of the thread?
Please don't necro-bump.

Also read up https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Gpg-agent

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WorMzy

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From: Scotland

Registered: 2010-06-16

Posts: 12,482

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Re: GPG passphrase timeout

Closing, for the reasons noted.

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