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I said: "because it forces "--pinentry-mode loopback", which suppresses that." I should have said "because it forces "--no-tty", which suppresses that." Sorry about that. .....Ron - -- Ron Murray <r...@rjmx.net> PGP Fingerprint: 4D99 70E3 2317 334B 141E 7B63 12F7 E865 B5E2 E761 On Sat, 2022-09-10 at 22:44 -0400, Ron Murray wrote: > Hi Albert. > > OK. I see that it works for a command-line program (I didn't know > about qcatool, to be honest). Perhaps I didn't make it clear, but my > project is a GUI program, using Qt5. Currently, QCA invokes the gpg > executable (although I gather there are plans to switch to GPGME), > and there are, as far as I know, only three ways to feed gpg with a > passphrase when it needs one: > > - Have gpg request it directly on the console, as you describe, > > - Directly, on the command line (not a good idea), and > > - Via gpg-agent. > > gpg, when invoked manually, opens up a pinentry dialog, which > collects the passphrase and feeds it to gpg-agent. QCA doesn't seem > to contain the necessary assuan code to do that. Furthermore, it > can't request for it on the console because it forces "--pinentry- > mode loopback", which suppresses that. Besides, you don't want to use > the console for anything when you're running a GUI program. > > Since QCA invokes the gpg executable anyway, it makes more sense > to just let gpg bring up a pinentry dialog. > > I've attached the patch that fixes the library to do just that. I > don't think it adds much more than 10-12 lines to the code. > > Thanks, > > .....Ron > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCgAdFiEETZlw4yMXM0sUHntjEvfoZbXi52EFAmMdYXkACgkQEvfoZbXi 52G3pQ//YrUazYg8t50Us/es/XZ6GqzGtIllVE7Z7+MxHL4s3VfQuJAhhMPw0elC 2bvldmeNbNL37lLMgRjNn/8WEiJtuhKCIPUuoYqn5wWXWk8jrNLGaPoucqqd3CPg osTe/lmQ2I6HmbFOM22kZBRHJkk0I8DY05CN+8pAaLc2wRiyEQOHyFKUEHRMKb7z PodWoeqEg3Qmn3H+TlezGeXlbtkKc6t1Qi0tXPWrtPoQSWGxLTNhm0T+qIeR5xD2 qy4Fi7c5QLpRKTsH8iDGEkhFlZY6tC4ah5GMCrbTZ2BwHJXgK4FnyZ7kyedW3YRT huoLFDWgFm9v41TTFX8L1PoeG8LieqlKRIfZPV+16unHwuGLJMAcb9uSjE+SBQi1 Gc501WsAPAlScmNaz+qeZyhelmsDC4RJU6+K25gbYHvQGhckUtXzLJLxx2rIJfHx CTujjJDkObzQDFRtttEh5c61EcPoxq4n0yjSfDCCx9ECS0rBnuMx+NZw9Kb5HYwM d38vnO+yXlZGnEZ8ePHznF4oNNzJ2qUuACDPKfJxYdReAiZMfXtcUsIzJ/XDu3pm wQqAHuPW6hXFCJ9VyMrnkNlZoru67y+CKv3r6s2zeFKHkwl2ynzxg/tR8yDHyMRg 88B0B/t8xGCLvuJo5QOhM7aiDg0VTw/p+gdfoBMJNzIg3MlfzaE= =Cwwg -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
