From 869c06efa791bbc8330becdb3f13f7cf9506257e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Kahn Gillmor Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2016 12:42:24 -0400 Subject: doc: Document how to manually shut down gpg-agent. * doc/gpg-agent.texi: document "gpgconf --kill gpg-agent" for manual agent termination. This was requested in a side-comment in https://bugs.debian.org/840669 Signed-off-by: Daniel Kahn Gillmor --- doc/gpg-agent.texi | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) (limited to 'doc/gpg-agent.texi') diff --git a/doc/gpg-agent.texi b/doc/gpg-agent.texi index 7c41027bc..3177af46d 100644 --- a/doc/gpg-agent.texi +++ b/doc/gpg-agent.texi @@ -84,6 +84,14 @@ the included Secure Shell Agent you may start the agent using: gpg-connect-agent /bye @end example +@noindent +If you want to manually terminate the currently-running agent, you can +safely do so with: + +@example +gpgconf --kill gpg-agent +@end example + @noindent @efindex GPG_TTY You should always add the following lines to your @code{.bashrc} or @@ -1518,6 +1526,7 @@ much slower or faster than the actual box. @ifset isman @command{@gpgname}(1), @command{gpgsm}(1), +@command{gpgconf}(1), @command{gpg-connect-agent}(1), @command{scdaemon}(1) @end ifset -- cgit v1.2.3