add some rough instructions on getting the extension/perl validation agent going...

[monkeysphere.git] / website / bugs / monkeysphere-gen-subkey-fails-without-agent.mdwn

diff --git a/website/bugs/monkeysphere-gen-subkey-fails-without-agent.mdwn b/website/bugs/monkeysphere-gen-subkey-fails-without-agent.mdwn
index 28556e363cd783c731c45893d1854cb2debf2558..1e33439bbb390e5a451bd0630fe2853273027e90 100644 (file)
--- a/website/bugs/monkeysphere-gen-subkey-fails-without-agent.mdwn
+++ b/website/bugs/monkeysphere-gen-subkey-fails-without-agent.mdwn
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-[[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:
@@ -129,3 +129,16 @@ fine.  That should make this bug fairly easy to fix, so I'll get on
 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.