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From: Petr Uzel Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 14:37:57 +0200 Subject: confusing message: 'no pinentry'
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.
Is there a pinentry in root's path? For example, on my system, I have $ type pinentry pinentry is /opt/local/bin/pinentry
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.
This sounds like normal behavior for su. "su -" is supposed to simulate a full login of the target account; it discards most environment. By contrast, "su" (without the minus) doesn't discard the environment. The su(1) manpage on your system should give more specific about how "su - " is handled. Steve -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.8 (Darwin) iEYEARECAAYFAki9Rr4ACgkQX7YJI4BuyDQpLQCfYIQtq5hp6MmZ6cxZBEj6noj+ pVIAn06rbPeNRcHDdcipYqxHMWCnb2vj =4Bym -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
