Re: [Duplicity-talk] Being asked signing passphrase even when SIGN_PASSPHRASE or --use-agent is set

[edgar . soldin]

On 28.08.2012 20:01, Scott Hansen wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> I'm getting asked for the signing key passphrase even when I've loaded the
> signing gpg key into gpg-agent or if I set SIGN_PASSPHRASE in the script.
> This is driving me nuts, because I can't get unattended backups to work!
> 
> My backup script is here: http://dpaste.com/792677/
> The excludes file is here: http://dpaste.com/792678/
> 
> Here are the /root/.bashrc functions I use to start gpg-agent and then cache
> the keys. http://dpaste.com/792679/ It's probably overkill but I've been
> struggling with this trying to figure out why my gpg keys aren't being read.
> 
> Why would it be asking the signing passphrase even though I've set
> SIGN_PASSPHRASE in the script? Am I missing something obvious?
> 
> Duplicity 0.6.19
> 
> Thanks!
> 

your export statement seems wrong. try leaving away the dollar e.g.

export PASSPHRASE

see http://ss64.com/bash/export.html 
actually you could as well 

export PASSPHRASE="secret"

to make it shorter.

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