[Gnuk-users] signing pin request

[micah]

NIIBE Yutaka <gniibe at fsij.org> writes:

> micah <micah at riseup.net> writes:
>> However, something changed and I cannot figure out what caused it: I'm
>> prompted for my signing pin every time, instead of it being cached for a
>> period of time. Because I sign my commits, this ends up getting annoying
>> quite fast, and I've been trying to track down the cause, but have been
>> unable to find it, so I'm wondering if anyone here has any answers. I
>> did find that there is an option in ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf called
>> "ignore-cache-for-signing" -- but that is not set.
>
> I think that it's because of card setting of:
>
>     Signature PIN ....: not forced
>
> You can examine this flag by gpg --card-status.
>
> To change this, please do following.
>
> # Invoce gpg card utility:
>
>     $ gpg --card-edit
>
> # Then, enable admin command
>
>     gpg/card> admin
>
> # Then, setup not forcing PIN everytime
> # (It will ask you the admin PIN)
>
>     gpg/card> forcesig

This was exactly the problem, thank you for thinking of that and telling
me!

micah
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