No Pinentry

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Wednesday 29 December 2004 23:42, John R. Shannon wrote:
> If I sign a message in Kmail using OpenPGP/MIME I get the pinentry
> window for entering my pass phrase. If I select S/MIME, I do not.

Are you sure you are seeing the pinentry dialog? It's possible that 
KMail is showing the dialog for entering your passphrase.

> The log shows:
>
> 4 - 2004-12-29 15:37:41 gpgsm[1531]: error creating signature: No
> pinentry 4 - 2004-12-29 15:37:41 gpgsm[1531.0x807c000] DBG: -> ERR
> 67108949 No pinentry

And when using OpenPGP/MIME you don't get a similar error message?

> Yet gpg-agent is running;
>
> /usr/pkg/bin/gpg-agent --daemon --pinentry-program
> /usr/pkg/bin/pinentry-gtk
>
> Is there pinentry configuration specific to gpg-sm?

gpgsm is deprecated. You should install gpg2 (which replaces the old 
gpgsm). Note that you still need gpg for OpenPGP/MIME.

Regards,
Ingo
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