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Amos Shapira
Asked: 2016-08-08 19:56:24 +0800 CST

how to trigger gpg agent refresh password?

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We use StackExchange blackbox as well as Hiera-eyaml-gpg to encrypt files in our Git repo using GPG keys.

I configured Git to decrypt files using Textconv configuration, so it automatically decrypts and compares both blackbox and .eyaml files when I execute commands like git show ..., git diff ... or git log -p ....

I also use GPG agent on my OSX, so it remembers the passphrase for a while.

The problem I hit is specifically with eyaml - if I execute git show HEAD..FETCH_HEAD and the agent needs to refresh the passphrase then it will automatically pop-up a nice TUI asking to re-type it. This works great if it was triggered via Blackbox but not by gpg-hiera-eyaml.

I'd like to find a way to tell gpg "now please ask for the passphrase if needed" directly from the command line, without having to trigger some blackbox command.

Is this possible?

Thanks.

EDIT: This is with GPG 1.4.20 on OSX.

EDIT: I tried preset'ing the passphrase with gpg-preset-passphrase -v -c $(gpg --list-secret-keys --with-fingerprint --with-colons | awk -F: '$1 == "fpr" { print $10 }') but it doesn't make a difference - git diff with eyaml files still tries to read the passphrase and fails.

mac-osx gpg

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Try:

    gpg-connect-agent RELOADAGENT /bye
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