Hi list! Today I've tried to generate gpg key as root and got the following error:
gpg: problem with the agent: No pinentry gpg: Key generation canceled. This seemed strange because I'm sure that I have pinentry (both -curses and -qt) properly installed. Further investigation revealed that the problem only arises if I 'su' from my normal user account (running gpg-agent and thus with GPG_AGENT_INFO set). 'su' preserves GPG_AGENT_INFO variable and gpg then tries to connect to gpg-agent running under my normal account, and then gpg fails. When switched to root with 'su -', gpg works fine. So the question is : - is this a behavior a bug (using 'foreign' gpg-agent) ? - if it is not a bug, shouldn't the error message be adjusted somehow ? (as it has nothing to do with pinentry IMHO) Thanks, -- Best regards / s pozdravem Petr Uzel, Packages maintainer --------------------------------------------------------------------- SUSE LINUX, s.r.o. e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lihovarská 1060/12 tel: +420 284 028 964 190 00 Prague 9 fax: +420 284 028 951 Czech Republic http://www.suse.cz _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
