Invalid passphrase
John Aldrich
john@chattanooga.net
Mon Jul 21 17:59:20 2003
On Saturday 19 July 2003 08:03 am, Ingo Kl=F6cker wrote:
> [The correct mailing list for this is gpa-dev@gnupg.org. So please send
> followups only to this address.]
>
Ok. Here we go again. Sending replies to kloecker@kde.org and to=20
gpa-dev@gnupg.org
>
>
> Did you properly configure the plugins? About the passphrase problem:
> Please use pinentry-gtk if pinentry-qt doesn't work for you (which
> seems to be the case). Please run to following command in a terminal
> where you started gpg-agent resp. where the GPG_AGENT_INFO environment
> variable is known:
> echo Test | gpg --clearsign
> Does this work?
>
Yes!
>
> BTW, you are obviously using KMail 1.5. Please update to KMail 1.5.2
> (KDE 3.1.2).
>
As soon as I get a chance.
>
> > What the heck is the problem here, people? I manually compiled
> > everything from the tarballs using the command-line options specified
> > on the KMail site and have got the Daemon running, so why does it 1)
> > refuse to recognize my passphrase
>
> Did you actually get a chance to enter your passphrase? This is not
> clear to me. If your passphrase contains non-ASCII characters then this
> might be a reason.
>
Nope. No chance to enter a passphrase with the plugin. After making some ot=
her=20
changes to my setup (i.e. adding the eval statement to my /usr/bin/startkde=
)=20
I can no longer enter a passphrase using the built-in OpenPGP support=20
either.
>
> > and 2) always assume I want to sign
> > and/or encrypt my emails when I have it set to NOT sign/encrypt by
> > default?
>
> Again, please check the configuration of the _plugin_. Most of the
> settings on the OpenPGP page only affect the built-in OpenPGP support.
>
Ok. I figured THAT part out... Still unable to sign though.
John