From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: nljlistbox2@gmail.com (N. Jackson)
Cc: 29906@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#29906: 27.0.50; Emacs prompts for passwords in GUI dialog instead of minibuffer
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2017 10:19:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83a7y0fx0q.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871sjdufq7.fsf@moondust.localdomain> (nljlistbox2@gmail.com)
> From: nljlistbox2@gmail.com (N. Jackson)
> Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2017 21:11:44 -0500
>
> When I start Gnus with `M-x gnus' I get prompted for my password
> (for my authinfo.gpg file) in a GUI dialog box. Expected
> behaviour: The prompt is in the minibuffer.
>
> Similarly, when I open a .gpg file with `C-x C-f' I am being
> presented with a GUI dialog instead of a prompt in the minibuffer.
>
> In general I expect to see prompts in the minibuffer unless I
> interact with Emacs with the mouse, through the menus or toolbar.
>
> This behaviour is new since I last used master a few months ago.
Does this NEWS.26 entry help?
** The pinentry.el library has been removed.
That package (and the corresponding change in GnuPG and pinentry)
was intended to provide a way to input passphrase through Emacs with
GnuPG 2.0. However, the change to support that was only implemented
in GnuPG >= 2.1 and didn't get backported to GnuPG 2.0. And with
GnuPG 2.1 and later, pinentry.el is not needed at all. So the
library was useless, and we removed it. GnuPG 2.0 is no longer
supported by the upstream project.
To adapt to the change, you may need to set 'epa-pinentry-mode' to the
symbol 'loopback'.
What version of GnuPG do you have on that system?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-12-30 8:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-30 2:11 bug#29906: 27.0.50; Emacs prompts for passwords in GUI dialog instead of minibuffer N. Jackson
2017-12-30 8:19 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2017-12-30 15:54 ` N. Jackson
2017-12-30 18:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-12-30 20:13 ` Daiki Ueno
2017-12-30 20:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-12-30 21:06 ` Daiki Ueno
2018-01-09 18:33 ` Glenn Morris
2018-01-15 21:11 ` Glenn Morris
2018-01-16 16:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-28 23:18 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-10-30 20:14 ` Stefan Kangas
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