gpg commands in RHEL 6 work fine, but print error: can't connect to `/home/user/.gnupg/S.gpg-agent': No such file or directory
Issue
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Most
gpgencryption/decryption and sign/verify commands in RHEL 6 are printing thecan't connect to '/home/user/.gnupg/S.gpg-agent'error, even when the operation seems to succeed
Is this error a problem?
Example 1:[root ~]# gpg --symmetric -o out.gpg --batch --passphrase 'mYp@55w0rd' /etc/redhat-release can't connect to `/root/.gnupg/S.gpg-agent': No such file or directory [root ~]# gpg --decrypt --batch --passphrase 'mYp@55w0rd' out.gpg gpg: 3DES encrypted data gpg: encrypted with 1 passphrase Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.6 (Santiago) gpg: WARNING: message was not integrity protectedExample 2:
[root ~]# gpg --sign -o out.gpg /etc/redhat-release You need a passphrase to unlock the secret key for user: "Moo Cow <moocow@devnull>" 1024-bit RSA key, ID 43D67E41, created 2015-07-22 can't connect to `/root/.gnupg/S.gpg-agent': No such file or directory ┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ Please enter the passphrase to unlock the secret key for the │ │ OpenPGP certificate: │ │ "Moo Cow <moocow@devnull>" │ │ 1024-bit RSA key, ID 43D67E41, │ │ created 2015-07-22. │ │ │ │ Passphrase **********________________________________________ │ │ │ │ <OK> <Cancel> │ └───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ [root ~]# ll out.gpg -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 248 Jul 23 16:15 out.gpg [root ~]# gpg --verify out.gpg gpg: Signature made Thu 23 Jul 2015 04:15:29 PM EDT using RSA key ID 43D67E41 gpg: Good signature from "Moo Cow <moocow@devnull>"
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
gnupg2-2.0.14*
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