problem with pinentry-qt ?

Ingo Klöcker kloecker@kde.org
Sun Jun 15 20:51:01 2003


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[I accidentally sent my previous reply not to the list.]

On Sunday 15 June 2003 20:20, johan wrote:
> On Sunday 15 June 2003 17:04, Ingo Kl=F6cker wrote:
> > On Sunday 15 June 2003 13:23, johan wrote:
> > > it is pretty weard. Only when i use in ./gnupg/gpg-agent.conf :
> > > pinentry-program /usr/local/bin/pinentry-gtk
> > > it works. With qt it doesn't work. I installed everything from
> > > cvs. When i change then the gtk by qt, it still works, but when i
> > > reboot, it doesn't work anymore, till i changed it again to gtk.
> > > Anybody has solution ?
> >
> > Try the following:
> > Start /usr/loca/bin/pinentry-qt manually. You will probably get a
> > warning (Warning: using insecure memory!) and then the following
> > prompt.
> > OK Your orders please
> >
> > Now enter "getpin". Now the passphrase dialog should appear. Play
> > around with it: Enter something, click on Cancel, click on OK. In
> > order to stop pinentry-qt you have to abort it with Ctrl+C.
> >
> > If all of the above works then it should also work with KMail. So I
> > guess trying the above will give you or us a clue why it doesn't
> > work for you.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Ingo
>
> Ingo,
>
> manually I cando that without problems, i get a box after
> /usr/local/bin/pinentry-qt, where i can add a password, but only it
> doesn't work with kmail, with gtk it does.
> manually :
> ohan@laptop:~$ pinentry-qt
> Warning: using insecure memory!
> OK Your orders please
> getpin
> D ******
> OK

Then please try to run the following command in a console where the=20
$GPG_AGENT_INFO environment variable is set:
echo Test | gpg --clearsign

Does the passphrase dialog come up? Does it work?

Regards,
Ingo

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