confusing message: 'no pinentry'

[Steve Revilak]

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> From: Petr Uzel <petr.uzel at suse.cz>
> 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 account; it discards
srevilak> most environment.  By contrast, "su" (without the minus)
srevilak> doesn't discard the environment.

petr.uzel> I know all of this. My question was whether the gpg
petr.uzel> behavior under specified circumstances ('incorrect'
petr.uzel> GPG_AGENT_INFO env. variable) should not be adjusted
petr.uzel> somehow.
petr.uzel> 
petr.uzel> In other words, I know how to solve my issue (use 'su
petr.uzel> -'/unset GPG_AGENT_INFO/killall gpg-agent/whatever), but
petr.uzel> I'm uncertain that all other gpg users know it
petr.uzel> too. Especially when the message about missing pinentry is
petr.uzel> quite confusing.

Ah, sorry I misunderstood.

Steve
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