From: "Roland Winkler" <winkler@gnu.org>
To: Daiki Ueno <ueno@unixuser.org>
Cc: 8791@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#8791: 23.3; EasyPG: pinentry in remote emacs session without X
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2011 00:24:28 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19948.25740.271081.135518@gargle.gargle.HOWL> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m339jn3f6q.fsf-ueno@unixuser.org>
On Mon Jun 6 2011 Daiki Ueno wrote:
> > I do not know much about the internals of gpg. I was wondering: for
> > gpg, is there anything similar to the ssh-add command, which could
> > serve as a fallback?
>
> I suspect that gpg command installed on your remote system is GPG2,
> which is tightly coupled with gpg-agent (and thus pinentry) for secret
> key operations by its design.
...So I assume from your reply that, first of all, gpg does not have
anything similar to shh-add which is a program the user runs in
order to talk to the ssh agent. But gpg is doing it the other way
round: it's always the gpg agent which runs pinentry to ask the user
for a password.
I do not quite understand what motivated the authors of gpg and ssh
to use these different strategies. Oh well...
Anyway: thanks for EasyPG!
Roland
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-06 5:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-03 0:03 bug#8791: 23.3; EasyPG: pinentry in remote emacs session without X Roland Winkler
2011-06-03 4:20 ` Daiki Ueno
2011-06-04 2:18 ` Roland Winkler
2011-06-06 1:46 ` Daiki Ueno
2011-06-06 5:24 ` Roland Winkler [this message]
2011-06-06 6:12 ` Daiki Ueno
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