From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: bad epg.el+GPG2 behavior: unavoidable passphrase pinentry prompt Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 19:34:11 -0400 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87wqlxx4ss.fsf@flea.lifelogs.com> References: <878uyg0yp1.fsf@flea.lifelogs.com> <87a9iuxgd3.fsf@flea.lifelogs.com> Reply-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1380584069 30232 80.91.229.3 (30 Sep 2013 23:34:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 23:34:29 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 01 01:34:32 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VQmz1-0007GG-OF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Oct 2013 01:34:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52078 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VQmz1-00029V-B6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Sep 2013 19:34:31 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60212) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VQmyt-00028U-Ka for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Sep 2013 19:34:29 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VQmyn-0005Dv-Q2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Sep 2013 19:34:23 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:55624) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VQmyn-0005Dp-JE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Sep 2013 19:34:17 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VQmyk-00075r-WF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Oct 2013 01:34:15 +0200 Original-Received: from c-98-229-61-72.hsd1.ma.comcast.net ([98.229.61.72]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 01 Oct 2013 01:34:14 +0200 Original-Received: from tzz by c-98-229-61-72.hsd1.ma.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 01 Oct 2013 01:34:14 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 34 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-98-229-61-72.hsd1.ma.comcast.net X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6; d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.130008 (Ma Gnus v0.8) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:YE/7eWp4CCwh14XcnVR5PXnvta8= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:163753 Archived-At: On Mon, 30 Sep 2013 18:49:11 -0400 Stefan Monnier wrote: >> Should I open a bug, then, with the suggested workaround? Or wait? The >> multiple popups are really annoying. SM> I must say I don't really understand what is the problem you're SM> describing (I mean: in what way does it affect Emacs), so I'll let SM> you judge. SM> AFAIK it's perfectly OK to popup a password prompt when needed and SM> I don't know under what circumstance this would be a problem. Using symmetric (passphrase) encryption: open authinfo.gpg in a buffer -> prompt edit save -> prompt VCS commit -> 2 or 3 prompts 4-5 prompts, I lost counts. This is the default behavior with GnuPG 2.0.20 and can't be turned off in a config file. To fix it, epg.el must be changed to use `--passphrase-fd=0 --batch' as I found today. The old behavior was, when GPG_AGENT_INFO was disabled, to ask for the password in an Emacs prompt. That fix doesn't work now. Daiki Ueno, however, told me the behavior was different in 2.1 with --pinentry-mode=loopback but I can't find such a release even though I found the commit. So I have no idea what the right fix is, at this point. I hope that summary helps. Ted