Fwd: Re: Newbie question.

[Ayoub Misherghi]

Sorry for going off list and messing everybody up. Now I disserve 
punishment. Sorry for the html too.


-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: 	Re: Newbie question.
Date: 	Sat, 11 Jul 2020 12:07:17 -0700
From: 	Ayoub Misherghi <ayoubhm at gmail.com>
To: 	Peter Lebbing <peter at digitalbrains.com>




On 7/11/2020 11:30 AM, Peter Lebbing wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 11/07/2020 19:58, Ayoub Misherghi wrote:
>> ayoub at vboxpwfl:~/sentry/trunk$ cat ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf
>> batch
>> pinentry-mode loopback
> Ah yes. Those two options have no place in your gpg.conf. They are
> options that you might want to specify as part of the command line on
> occasion, but unless you have a very unusual setup they should not be
> there. You should remove both. The pinentry-mode is probably what is
> preventing you being asked for the passphrase.
My current intended usage is in non-interactive mode, completely.

I can remove them from the gpg.conf but I would have to issue them

every time. My understanding is that non-interactive mode requires

those commands.

>> expert
> I'd recommend dropping this as well.

I selected "expert" mode because I am using ED2599 incrpytion that is

available only in this mode (I know, I am newbie)

>> #--passphrase-file file
>> #passphrase-file /home/ayoub/.gnupg/output.png
> These commented out lines are probably why the pinentry-mode line was
> there in the first place. Do you know why these lines, both the
> uncommented and the commented ones, are in your gpg.conf?

All the config lines I showed are in my user config.

A few days ago, my set up, which is still in development phase,

worked until my short lived gpg keys expired. I fell in deep ***** when

I created new keys. It all worked, with the passphrase-file option and 
without,

before I fell. Can you pull this dumb newbie out?

> HTH,
>
> Peter.
>