Package: gpg
Version: 2.2.2-1
Severity: important
Hello Debian GnuPG Maintainers!
I have the following pinentry packages installed:
$ aptitude search pinentry | grep ^i
i A pinentry-gtk2 - GTK+-2-based PIN or pass-phrase entry dialog for GnuPG
i pinentry-tty - minimal dumb-terminal PIN or pass-phrase entry for GnuPG
Hence, I expect gpg to work in text consoles (without X), as well as in
X sessions.
Well, I have no problems, when in an X session (pinentry-gtk2 asks for
the passphrase and gpg is able to sign and/or decrypt data).
On the other hand, I cannot use gpg in the text console, after exiting
from an X session.
Steps to reproduce the bug:
0) login on a text console (textual login on getty, I mean)
1) start an X session
$ startx
2) use the X session a bit and then quit from it
3) back to the text console (the one where you logged in); try to sign
a file
$ gpg --sign foo
gpg: using "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX" as default secret key for signing
gpg: signing failed: Permission denied
gpg: signing failed: Permission denied
gpg exited with the above error and no foo.gpg was generated
$ ls
foo
4) exit from the text console
$ exit
5) login again on the text console
6) try again (without starting an X session)
$ gpg --sign foo
pinentry-tty correctly asks for the passphrase and everything
works as intended
7) file foo.gpg has been generated
$ ls
foo foo.gpg
What's wrong?
What did I fail to understand?
Please let me know.
Thanks for your time!
-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (800, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.13.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages gpg depends on:
ii gpgconf 2.2.2-1
ii libassuan0 2.4.3-3
ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.6-8.1
ii libc6 2.24-17
ii libgcrypt20 1.7.9-2
ii libgpg-error0 1.27-5
ii libreadline7 7.0-3
ii libsqlite3-0 3.21.0-1
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-5
Versions of packages gpg recommends:
ii gnupg 2.2.2-1
gpg suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
