Hi,
Dne Tuesday 02 of September 2008 15:59:22 Steve Revilak napsal(a):
> Is there a pinentry in root's path?
Yes, it is in /usr/bin/pinentry (and /usr/bin is in root's path). In openSUSE,
which I use, the /usr/bin/pinentry is a bash script that tries to determine,
which pinentry (-qt, -curses, -gtk) to execute and then executes it.
> > 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.
I know all of this. My question was whether the gpg behavior under specified
circumstances ('incorrect' GPG_AGENT_INFO env. variable) should not be
adjusted somehow.
In other words, I know how to solve my issue (use 'su -'/unset
GPG_AGENT_INFO/killall gpg-agent/whatever), but I'm uncertain that all other
gpg users know it too. Especially when the message about missing pinentry is
quite confusing.
--
Best regards / s pozdravem
Petr Uzel, Packages maintainer
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