Re: pinentry fails with gpg-agent for ssh, but works for gpg

2018-01-29 Thread brian saia
On 01/25/2018 03:03 AM, Werner Koch wrote: >> $ ssh some-host >> >> fails to ask for the PIN. > That is because ssh has no mechanism to tell the ssh-agent (in this case > gpg-agent) the DISPLAY or tty to use for pinentry. This the pinentry > pops up on the tty or X server gpg-agent was initially s

Re: pinentry fails with gpg-agent for ssh, but works for gpg

2018-01-25 Thread Werner Koch
On Thu, 25 Jan 2018 09:39, g...@unixarea.de said: > $ ssh some-host > > fails to ask for the PIN. That is because ssh has no mechanism to tell the ssh-agent (in this case gpg-agent) the DISPLAY or tty to use for pinentry. This the pinentry pops up on the tty or X server gpg-agent was initially s

pinentry fails with gpg-agent for ssh, but works for gpg

2018-01-25 Thread Matthias Apitz
Hello, A bit triggered by the last thread "Why exactly does pinentry fails with gpg-agent and ssh support?" I want to report a similar issue which I do not understand. I have the 'pinentry' in /usr/local/bin/pinentry as a sym-link to the qt5 version: $ ls -l /usr/local/bin/pinentry lrwxr-xr-x