-[[meta title="monkeysphere --gen-subkey seems to fail if no gpg-agent is running"]]
+[[!meta title="monkeysphere --gen-subkey seems to fail if no gpg-agent is running"]]
Consider the following transcript of a user who starts with no OpenPGP
key in the first place:
it.
-- BJ (jgr)
+
+---
+
+Alternately, we could use `--passwd-fd` and `ssh-agent`, along the
+lines i proposed [for handling passphrase-locked secret
+keys](/bugs/handle-passphrase-locked-secret-keys).
+
+---
+
+[[bugs/done]] as of 2008-08-15 16:48:26-0400 (to be released in 0.8-1)
+
+I opted to go with the `ssh-askpass` route, and fall back to echoing
+stuff to a fifo directly if `ssh-askpass` is not available.