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[Pinentry]: add remeber password checkbox in pinentry-qt.
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Currently, in pinentry-qt, there is no checkbox as it is in pinentry-gnome3.

It would be awesome if there is such checkbox in it.

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1.1.1

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evan0g created this task.May 8 2021, 11:17 AM
• ikloecker closed this task as Wontfix.May 10 2021, 9:23 AM
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GnuPG (more precisely gpg-agent) does cache the password for some time in memory. The default is 10 minutes. Add

default-cache-ttl n

where n is the number of seconds to cache the password, to ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf.

An option to remember the password (in particular, between restarts of the computer) will not be added to pinentry-qt.

niknetniko added a subscriber: niknetniko.Aug 29 2022, 7:47 PM

Could this be reconsidered, as a way to support "allow-external-cache" in pinentry-qt? I am trying to use pinentry-kwallet, which saves the passphrase in kwallet, but there is no checkbox if the underlying pinentry is pinentry-qt.