Re: Adjusting the passphrase cache duration

[Stef Walter <stefw gnome org>]

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On 11/02/2012 12:19 AM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-11-01 at 17:02 -0400, Kurt Padilla wrote:
>> I just joined the list. I originally posted this question (with 
>> pictures!) to Ubuntuforums.org, but I figured that I would post
>> it here as well. Basically, I would like to have the option to
>> adjust the amount of time that my passphrase remains cached after
>> I enter it. I am able to do this in Ubuntu 12.04, but in 12.10,
>> my passphrase remains cached until I log out. Perhaps I made an
>> adjustment in my 12.04 installation which gave me that ability.
>> If I did, though, I cannot remember. Hopefully someone can help
>> me out.
> 
> I'm not certain what, if anything, obeys / uses the setting - but
> in dconf there is desktop.gnome.crypto.cache.gpg-cache-ttl
> 
> In the past I know that Evolution will, after awhile, ask me to
> unlock GPG again - but I don't know if this has changed or not [I
> haven't noticed].

There was a bug in GNOME 3.4 in which we did not respect this setting.
We patched the bug, and (obviously) included the fix in GNOME 3.6:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=681081

The plan is to be able to change these settings from seahorse. But
that code hasn't been merged yet :S

Cheers,

Stef

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