Re: gpg-agent error: No pinentry

[Marco van Hulten]

correction follows inline—

Any help is appreciated.

Je 19 dec 09:22 skribis Marco:
> Je 18 dec 22:50 skribis Andreas:
> > On Wed, Dec 18, 2019 at 10:41:27PM +0100, Marco van Hulten wrote:  
> > > Do I need to do any more actions accept for 'guix package -i gnupg
> > > pinentry'?    
> > 
> > I also have a file .gnupg/gpg-agent.conf in my home directory
> > containing the following lines:
> > 
> > default-cache-ttl 300
> > max-cache-ttl 3600
> > pinentry-program /home/USERNAME/.guix-profile/bin/pinentry-curses  
> 
> Thank you, Andreas and Gábor, very useful to know that pinentry-program
> should be set.  I did so:
> 
> $ file $(realpath $(grep ^pinentry-program ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf | awk 
> '{print $2}'))
> /gnu/store/12gagy0ql4v7qlv9px54lz5fy4d7gff9-pinentry-tty-1.1.0/bin/pinentry-tty:
> ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked,
> interpreter 
> /gnu/store/ahqgl4h89xqj695lgqvsaf6zh2nhy4pj-glibc-2.29/lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2,
> for GNU/Linux 2.6.32, not stripped
> 
> Importing a public and private key pair, following [1], worked properly
> now, but it still complains when decrypting a file.
> 
> [1]: https://www.debuntu.org/how-to-importexport-gpg-key-pair/
> 
> To be sure, if I now try to remove the key, 'gpg --delete-key publiko',
> it says that I need to use option "--delete-secret-keys" to delete the
> private key first.  So it appears to be really there.  However,
> 
>     $ date | gpg -e > jadaja.gpg
>     gpg: encrypted with 4096-bit RSA key, ID 54AE7D44B93BDBDF, created 
> 2019-05-30
>           "Marco van Hulten (publiko) <address@hidden>"
>     gpg: public key decryption failed: No pinentry
>     gpg: decryption failed: No secret key

Sorry, the lines were not copied consistently.  Now the whole
encryption/decryption process verbatimly copied from my terminal:

    $ date > test.txt
    $ gpg --output test.txt.gpg --encrypt --recipient address@hidden test.txt
    $ gpg --decrypt test.txt.gpg 
    gpg: encrypted with 4096-bit RSA key, ID 54AE7D44B93BDBDF, created 
2019-05-30
          "Marco van Hulten (publiko) <address@hidden>"
    gpg: public key decryption failed: No pinentry
    gpg: decryption failed: No secret key

> I tried killing gpg-agent to be sure it uses the current configuration,
> but again it complains about pinentry.
> 
> Apropos, I this e-mail is signed with this very key.
> 
> —Marco

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