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Thanks for the advice, I'll award questions as that was very helpful. <br />
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The end fix was a combination of that and this:<br />
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chmod o+rw $(tty)<br />
before executing su - &lt;shared account&gt;
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Thanks for the advice, I'll award questions as that was very helpful.

The end fix was a combination of that and this:

chmod o+rw $(tty)
before executing su - <shared account>

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Running on a linux vm. Gpg 2.0.14<br />
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Trying to create a GPG key pair, running into trouble with connecting to the gpg agent.<br />
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Error:<br />
can't connect to `/home/mezkil/.gnupg/S.gpg<wbr />-agent': No such file or directory<br />
gpg-agent[6640]: command get_passphrase failed: Operation cancelled<br />
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I added these config lines, still no difference.<br />
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.bashrc:<br />
GPG_TTY=$(tty)<br />
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;export GPG_TTY<br />
<br />
.bash_profile:<br />
/usr/bin/gpg-agent --daemon --use-standard-socket<br />
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Suggestions?
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Running on a linux vm. Gpg 2.0.14


Trying to create a GPG key pair, running into trouble with connecting to the gpg agent.

Error:
can't connect to `/home/mezkil/.gnupg/S.gpg-agent': No such file or directory
gpg-agent[6640]: command get_passphrase failed: Operation cancelled

I added these config lines, still no difference.

.bashrc:
GPG_TTY=$(tty)
     export GPG_TTY

.bash_profile:
/usr/bin/gpg-agent --daemon --use-standard-socket

Suggestions?

GPG Key pair error

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