No Pinentry

[John R. Shannon]

On Wednesday 29 December 2004 04:21 pm, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> 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.

Yes, the window has the title "pinentry-gtk"

> > 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?

No. The mail is correctly signed.

> > 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.

I'm confused, gpg-sm comes as part of gnupg-1.9.14.tar.gz. Is there something 
newer?

-- 
John R. Shannon
john at johnrshannon.com
john.r.shannon at saic.com
shannonjr at NetBSD.org
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