From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#29906: 27.0.50; Emacs prompts for passwords in GUI dialog instead of minibuffer Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2017 20:02:33 +0200 Message-ID: <83po6wdrgm.fsf@gnu.org> References: <871sjdufq7.fsf@moondust.localdomain> <83a7y0fx0q.fsf@gnu.org> <87wp14ky88.fsf@moondust.localdomain> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1514656939 30989 195.159.176.226 (30 Dec 2017 18:02:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2017 18:02:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 29906@debbugs.gnu.org To: nljlistbox2@gmail.com (N. Jackson), Daiki Ueno Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 30 19:02:14 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eVLSW-0007cZ-EV for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Dec 2017 19:02:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34464 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eVLUV-0003oz-4V for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Dec 2017 13:04:15 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37372) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eVLUO-0003om-Ny for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Dec 2017 13:04:09 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eVLUJ-0000gV-R1 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Dec 2017 13:04:08 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:49419) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eVLUJ-0000fT-O5 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Dec 2017 13:04:03 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eVLUJ-0002t5-CD for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Dec 2017 13:04:03 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2017 18:04:03 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 29906 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 29906-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B29906.151465698711020 (code B ref 29906); Sat, 30 Dec 2017 18:04:03 +0000 Original-Received: (at 29906) by debbugs.gnu.org; 30 Dec 2017 18:03:07 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58100 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eVLTP-0002rg-6X for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 30 Dec 2017 13:03:07 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:46022) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eVLTN-0002r9-9X for 29906@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 30 Dec 2017 13:03:05 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eVLTH-0007Fm-6r for 29906@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 30 Dec 2017 13:03:00 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:42998) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eVLT8-0006o8-M5; Sat, 30 Dec 2017 13:02:50 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1563 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1eVLT7-0002WX-Ni; Sat, 30 Dec 2017 13:02:50 -0500 In-reply-to: <87wp14ky88.fsf@moondust.localdomain> (nljlistbox2@gmail.com) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:141622 Archived-At: > From: nljlistbox2@gmail.com (N. Jackson) > Cc: 29906@debbugs.gnu.org > Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2017 10:54:31 -0500 > > At 10:19 +0200 on Saturday 2017-12-30, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > > 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'. > > Yes, that does help, thank you. I should have checked the news. > > It doesn't help me decide what to do though. Do you know if using > the prompt in the minibuffer (using `loopback') is thought to be > less secure than using the external pinentry program? I don't know enough about this to tell. Daiki, any inputs? > > What version of GnuPG do you have on that system? > > Here `gpg' is GnuPG 1.4.22 and `gpg2' is GnuPG 2.2.3.