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Re: Can't sign with gpg2 using pinentry-curses
On 7/6/2017 5:23 PM, Ken Brown wrote:
On 7/6/2017 4:27 PM, Ken Brown wrote:
When I try to sign a file using gpg2 in a mintty or xterm terminal
(e.g., 'gpg2 -bs foo'), a dialogue box is drawn in the terminal, but I
can't figure out how to enter my passphrase. Anything I type is just
echoed at the bottom of the screen, regardless of what I do with the
mouse. If I type Ctrl-C, the bash prompt returns but the
pinentry-curses process keeps running for a while.
If I install pinentry-gnome3, then 'gpg2 -bs' works fine when run from
an xterm window; a dialogue box pops up and I can enter the passphrase.
For a solution outside of X11, it looks like pinentry-w32 will do the
job. But simply installing that package isn't enough, because the
script /usr/bin/pinentry never calls pinentry-w32.exe.
As a workaround, I moved /usr/bin/pinentry out of the way and created a
symlink
/usr/bin/pinentry -> pinentry-w32.exe
A better workaround is
--- pinentry~ 2017-07-06 17:05:23.000000000 -0400
+++ pinentry 2017-07-06 17:27:52.200826600 -0400
@@ -82,6 +82,9 @@
elif [ -n "$DISPLAY" -a -x /usr/bin/pinentry-qt ]
then
export PINENTRY_BINARY="/usr/bin/pinentry-qt"
+elif [ -x /usr/bin/pinentry-w32 ]
+then
+ export PINENTRY_BINARY="/usr/bin/pinentry-w32"
# pinentry-curses is installed by default
else
export PINENTRY_BINARY="/usr/bin/pinentry-curses"
Ken
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