Yubikey + GNUPG 2.1.14 + GPG Agent Forwarding + Mutt 1.6.0 (gpgme 1.6.0): Not asking for PIN for smartcard on first use of an encryption key

Thomas Glanzmann thomas at glanzmann.de
Thu Jul 21 18:31:28 CEST 2016


Hello Peter,

* Thomas Glanzmann <thomas at glanzmann.de> [2016-07-21 16:22]:
> From what I learned so far, the behaviour depends on the entry
> 'pinentry-mode' if you set it to 'default' it asks the remote agent.

in order to not spread misinformation myself. 'pinentry-mode default'
and no pinentry-mode does the same for me. So for me it did not work
before, because I had the DISPLAY issue and the wrong forwading socket.

Cheers,
        Thomas



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