How to enable gpg-agent for a user in RHEL 6

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Issue

  • The gpg-agent is not caching passphrases for us. How to enable it?
  • Most gpg commands give the can't connect to '/home/user/.gnupg/S.gpg-agent' warning. How can we turn on gpg-agent?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • gnupg2-2.0.14*

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