gpg 2.1 gpg-agent over ssh

[Ximin Luo]

When running gpg 2.1.2 over SSH with a secret-key operation, the gpg in the ssh client appears to hang.

What is actually happening is that the gpg-agent it's connecting to, is running a pinentry that's associated with the display on the desktop session the *gpg-agent* is attached to, rather than the ssh client, and there's no way for the ssh user to reach this.

$ pgrep -a gpg-agent
17902 gpg-agent --homedir /home/infinity0/.gnupg --use-standard-socket --daemon
$ kill -HUP 17902 # flush all secret keys
$ pgrep -af pinentry
(exit 1)

$ gpg2 -as <<EOF
test
EOF

^C
gpg: signal Interrupt caught ... exiting

(exit 130)
(exit 130)
$ pgrep -af pinentry
22048
# this process sticks around and you need to kill it manually

But physically going back to the desktop session doesn't show a pinentry popup, for some reason.

It's unclear the best way to solve this. Thoughts?

X

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git://github.com/infinity0/pubkeys.git


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