From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Daiki Ueno Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: bad epg.el+GPG2 behavior: unavoidable passphrase pinentry prompt Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2013 21:48:19 +0900 Message-ID: <87y56b96uk.fsf-ueno@gnu.org> References: <878uyg0yp1.fsf@flea.lifelogs.com> <878uyfzf1w.fsf@flea.lifelogs.com> <87bo389lw0.fsf-ueno@gnu.org> <87y56cufkt.fsf@flea.lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1380718116 5951 80.91.229.3 (2 Oct 2013 12:48:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2013 12:48:36 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 02 14:48:40 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 1VRLr6-00057E-2O for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Oct 2013 14:48:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35904 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VRLr5-0003wk-Ny for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Oct 2013 08:48:39 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57877) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VRLqs-0003e3-O0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Oct 2013 08:48:27 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VRLqr-0001sj-6Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Oct 2013 08:48:26 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:47467) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VRLqr-0001sf-3b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Oct 2013 08:48:25 -0400 Original-Received: from du-a.org ([2001:e41:db5e:fb14::1]:37601 helo=debian) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VRLqq-0003gt-Lt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Oct 2013 08:48:24 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87y56cufkt.fsf@flea.lifelogs.com> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Wed, 02 Oct 2013 06:34:10 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.4 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:163803 Archived-At: Ted Zlatanov writes: > On Wed, 02 Oct 2013 16:23:27 +0900 Daiki Ueno wrote: > > DU> Ted Zlatanov writes: >>> It seems that GnuPG has to be explicitly compiled with >>> --allow-loopback-pinentry which IMO is a really painful requirement to >>> pass onto Emacs users. I am surprised by this, but perhaps I've >>> misunderstood something? > > DU> Why don't you ask Werner directly about the ideas behind this, instead > DU> of complaining here and seeking for a workaround? > > Because the bug or misbehavior is specifically in epg.el and I don't > know the best way to fix it. Well, I didn't mean to attack you. I guess the configure option is disabled by default because it apparently has a security risk and there are not so many users of that feature. If you could provide a use case, that might help convince him to make --allow-loopback-pinentry enabled by default (and release 2.2 and/or backport it to 2.0).