From: Tassilo Horn <thorn@fastmail.fm>
To: Daiki Ueno <ueno@unixuser.org>
Cc: 10011@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#10011: 24.0.91; Password prompt on linux console reads only every second key
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 10:47:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871utfc7ny.fsf@tsdh.uni-koblenz.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m34nybv4xf.fsf-ueno@unixuser.org> (Daiki Ueno's message of "Fri, 11 Nov 2011 10:11:40 +0900")
Daiki Ueno <ueno@unixuser.org> writes:
Hi!
>> When I fire up emacs in a plain linux console and try to find an
>> encrypted file like C-x C-f ~/.authinfo.gpg RET, I get a password
>> prompt like
>>
>> +----------------| Password:
>>
>> at the bottom of the screen.
>
> Do you mean you started up emacs without X? If so...
Yes, exactly. On a linux terminal without X.
>> I get a different, dialog-like password prompt:
>>
>> +---------------------------+
>> | Password: |
>> | _________________________ |
>> | <Ok> <Cancel> |
>> +---------------------------+
>
> ...looks like a pinentry-curses dialog. Actually the integration of
> pinentry-curses with Emacs is not yet ready:
> http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=8791#8
> I was a bit surprised that the dialog is somehow working :)
But why do I get different password prompts depending of I use
$ emacs ~/.authinfo.gpg
or
$ emacs
C-x C-f ~/.authinfo.gpg
> Anyway, workarounds are to use gpg1 without gpg-agent, or to preset
> your passphrase with gpg-preset-passphrase.
I use GnuPG 2.0.18, but that doesn't have gpg-preset-passphrase (at
least not as command). Is that version 2.1-only (in that version's
online docs it is listed)?
Bye,
Tassilo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-11 9:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-10 9:45 bug#10011: 24.0.91; Password prompt on linux console reads only every second key Tassilo Horn
2011-11-11 1:11 ` Daiki Ueno
2011-11-11 9:47 ` Tassilo Horn [this message]
2011-11-13 0:02 ` Daiki Ueno
2011-11-15 10:09 ` Tassilo Horn
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