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
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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
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,
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> From: Petr Uzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 16:15:02 +0200
> Subject: Re: confusing message: 'no pinentry'
srevilak> This sounds like normal behavior for su. "su -" is supposed
srevilak> to simulate a full login of the target accoun
David,
I think I might want to test your suggestion about storing the
passphrase on disk or not using one at all to see how it works for what
I need to accomplish. Can you give me some details about how to go about
doing that?
Thank you.
-Duwaine
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On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 11:38:17AM -0500, Duwaine Robinson wrote:
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> David,
>
> I think I might want to test your suggestion about storing the
> passphrase on disk or not using one at all to see how it works for what
> I need to accomplish. Can you give me some details about how to go about
> do
