Re: problem with gnupg2 not prompting for passphrase

[jeff <jeff at jeffunit dot com>]

On 7/10/2017 12:42 PM, Thomas Wolff wrote:
> Am 10.07.2017 um 16:29 schrieb jeff:
>> I installed gnupg2 and several versions of pinentry.
>> When I try to use it with engmail on thunderbird, I don't get prompted
>> for a passphrase.
>>
>> My engmail setup works with a standalone version of gnupg2.
>> it also used to work with cygwin gnupg1 (before engmail required gnupg2).
> This suggests your gnupg2 is not a cygwin program. Unfortunately,
> interoperability of non-cygwin programs with cygwin terminal I/O is
> limited. You might want to use the winpty wrapper.
> Thomas


502: which -a gpg2
/usr/bin/gpg2
/bin/gpg2
/usr/bin/gpg2
/cygdrive/c/Program Files (x86)/GNU/GnuPG/pub/gpg2

jeff_xeon:/cygdrive/u:503: gpg2 --output fred.good --decrypt fred.gpg
gpg: encrypted with 4096-bit RSA key, ID A3791E7DD935A424, created
2013-03-21
      "Jeff Deifik <jeff@jeffunit.com>"
gpg: public key decryption failed: No such device or address
gpg: decryption failed: No secret key

I have uninstalled the standalone version of gnupg2 before I did this.
It seems most likely that the version of gpg2 being invoked is a cygwin
version.

jeff

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