Help needed to setup Passphrase with GNUPG 2.0.26

[Samir Nassar]

Hello Mr. Kumar,

If this is for a remote system you likely want pinentry to be configured with 
ncurses only and without GTK or Qt.

Samir

On Friday, 2014-10-31 21:35:53 SubramaniaRao, ravikumar wrote:
> Daniel Kahn Gillmor,
> 
> Thank you for your reply. Yes after sending the Mail to you, I installed the
> Pinentry v0.8.4. But it gives the error " No package 'QtCore' found. We are
> using Sun Solaris 10.
 
> P.S: The Emphasis is, once you have reached Excellence, do not stop. I was
> just created the Passphrase with the Famous Phrase “Excellence is not an
> Adjective but a Verb”, so that I can remember it..
 
> Cheers,
> S. Ravi Kumar
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Kahn Gillmor [mailto:dkg at fifthhorseman.net]
> Sent: Friday, October 31, 2014 2:05 PM
> To: SubramaniaRao, ravikumar; gnupg-users at gnupg.org; Custodio, Gina
> Subject: Re: Help needed to setup Passphrase with GNUPG 2.0.26
> 
> On 10/31/2014 01:31 PM, SubramaniaRao, ravikumar wrote:
> 
> > Hello GNUPG Users,
> >
> >
> >
> > Help needed to setup Passphrase with GNUPG 2.0.26.
> >
> >
> >
> > We have installed the following.
> >
> >
> >
> > (a)     libgpg-error-1.11
> > (b)     libgcrypt-1.4.0
> > (c)     libassuan-2.1.2
> > (d)     libksba-1.3.1
> > (e)     pth-2.0.7
> > (f)     GNUPG 2.0.26.
> >
> >
> >
> > Then (1) % echo $PATH
> > /u/ravikums/bin/bin.sun4:/u/ravikums/bin:/usr/openwin/bin/xview:/usr/openw
> > in/bin:/usr/dt/bin:/netapp/bin:/netapp/gnu/bin:/usr/software/bin:/usr/soft
> > ware/utils/bin:/usr/software/rats/bin:/usr/software/test/bin:/usr/local:/u
> > sr/local/bin:/usr/ucb:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/etc:/usr/games:/usr/lib/uucp:/etc
> > :/usr/lib:/usr/sccs/bin:/usr/local/X11/sun4/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/r/frame/bin:
> > /usr/sbin:/sbin:/opt/lotus/bin:/u/ravikums/notes:.:/usr/openwin/bin:/usr/o
> > penwin/bin/xview
> 
> >         (2) echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH
> > 
> > /usr/openwin/lib:/usr/local/X11R5/sun4c/lib:/netapp/gnu/lib:/usr/openw
> > in/lib:/opt/lotus/common/lel/r100/sunspa41:/usr/local/X11R5/sun4c/lib:
> > /usr/local/lib:/usr/lib
> >
> >
> >
> > After  that we are invoking the Command "gpg2 --gen-key-The Screen Shot is
> > pasted below: The issue is, after entering the Passphrase it stays there
> > forever.
> 
> your screenshot suggests that you're doing all of this on some remote
> machine via ssh (it looks like you're using putty on windows).  You haven't
> mentioned what operating system you're using, though.
 
> Anyway, gpg might want to use pinentry to gather the passphrase from the
> user, and it's not clear that you have the right environment set up for
> pinentry.
 
> whatever package manager you have, can you install pinentry-curses and try
> again?
 
>         --dkg
> 
> PS "Excellence is not an Adjective but a Verb" -- it's actually a noun :)
> 
> 

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Samir Nassar
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