You might want to check out http://macgpg.sf.net and their mailing list for assistance. Its do-able. On 24 Sep 2007, at 13:13, Richard Bronosky wrote:

I have setup dozens of Linux and FreeBSD machines with gpg-agent. But, doing it on a Mac seems to be voodoo at best. I think that every howto and thread that Google turns up is missing some extremely important prerequisites. Quite honestly, I feel like I am trashing my system with all the different installers I have ran. Can someone please just reply to this and encourage me that it is possible?

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Okay, I've finally taken the time to track down the issue. Ultimately I've fallen victim to over-Googling. I was trying to apply too many conflicting advices to my situation. As it turns out, I can get gpg-agent to work on my Mac if I ignore Benjamin Donnachie's "pinentry-mac.app", and if I edit his "start gpg-agent" apple script. I will not have the gpg-agent "primed" with my key's passphrase until I launch a terminal the first time (and my .bashrc tries to eval the result of `gpg -d .bash_private.gpg` into the shell env), but that's fine for now. Ultimately I'd like to find a method of using the apple keychain to unlock my gpg keys for the gpg-agent. On 9/26/07, Boey Maun Suang <boeyms@macports.org> wrote:

Hi Richard,

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I have setup dozens of Linux and FreeBSD machines with gpg-agent. But, doing it on a Mac seems to be voodoo at best. I think that every howto and thread that Google turns up is missing some extremely important prerequisites. Quite honestly, I feel like I am trashing my system with all the different installers I have ran. Can someone please just reply to this and encourage me that it is possible?

I assume that you're having trouble with the MacPorts gpg-agent port, which I currently maintain, though I'm no expert in using it. Can you provide details of the problems that you are having with installing or running it, and what you would ordinarily expect to do to get it working on Linux and FreeBSD?

Kind regards,

Maun Suang

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