gnupg: Invoking GPG-AGENT

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1 2 Invoking GPG-AGENT
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1 'gpg-agent' is a daemon to manage secret (private) keys independently
1 from any protocol.  It is used as a backend for 'gpg' and 'gpgsm' as
1 well as for a couple of other utilities.
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1    The agent is automatically started on demand by 'gpg', 'gpgsm',
1 'gpgconf', or 'gpg-connect-agent'.  Thus there is no reason to start it
1 manually.  In case you want to use the included Secure Shell Agent you
1 may start the agent using:
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1      gpg-connect-agent /bye
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1 If you want to manually terminate the currently-running agent, you can
1 safely do so with:
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1      gpgconf --kill gpg-agent
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1 You should always add the following lines to your '.bashrc' or whatever
1 initialization file is used for all shell invocations:
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1      GPG_TTY=$(tty)
1      export GPG_TTY
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1 It is important that this environment variable always reflects the
1 output of the 'tty' command.  For W32 systems this option is not
1 required.
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1    Please make sure that a proper pinentry program has been installed
1 under the default filename (which is system dependent) or use the option
1 'pinentry-program' to specify the full name of that program.  It is
1 often useful to install a symbolic link from the actual used pinentry
1 (e.g.  '/usr/local/bin/pinentry-gtk') to the expected one (e.g.
1 '/usr/local/bin/pinentry').
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1 ⇒Option Index, for an index to 'GPG-AGENT''s commands and
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· Agent Commands      List of all commands.
· Agent Options       List of all options.
· Agent Configuration Configuration files.
· Agent Signals       Use of some signals.
· Agent Examples      Some usage examples.
· Agent Protocol      The protocol the agent uses.
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