gpg: problem with the agent: No pinentry

gpg: problem with the agent: No pinentry

[Luis Felipe]

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Hi,

I'm on Guix system 16a6cbe and I'm having trouble using gpg from the terminal because pretty much every command I run fails with the message "No pinentry" (creating new keys, encrypting files, etc.).

Tab-completing "pinentry" on a terminal I see I have:

  pinentry
  pinentry-curses
  pinentry-gnome3
  pinentry-gtk-2

I don't recall this happening to me before. Anyone has had this issue or any clue about how to solve it?

For what it's worth, creating GPG keys from GNOME Seahorse does work.

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Luis Felipe López Acevedo
https://luis-felipe.gitlab.io/

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Re: gpg: problem with the agent: No pinentry

[Reza Housseini]

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 > I don't recall this happening to me before. Anyone has had this issue 
or any clue about how to solve it?

I have this in my ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf file:

default-cache-ttl 600
max-cache-ttl 7200
enable-ssh-support
use-agent
pinentry-program /run/current-system/profile/bin/pinentry-gnome3

Hope this solves your problem.

Cheers
Reza

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Reza Housseini

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Re: gpg: problem with the agent: No pinentry

[Sébastien Rey-Coyrehourcq]

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About GPG + Gnome and Seahorse, the package modification  into dotfile ~ of dominicm work very well :

Redefine gnome keyring :
<https://git.sr.ht/~dominicm/dotfiles/tree/main/item/Packages.org#L25>

Other package (seahorse, ssh + gpg, etc.) :
<https://git.sr.ht/~dominicm/dotfiles/tree/main/item/System.org>

Best regards,

Reza Housseini <reza.housseini@gmail.com> writes:

>> I don’t recall this happening to me before. Anyone has had this issue or any
>  clue about how to solve it?
>
> I have this in my ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf file:
>
> default-cache-ttl 600
> max-cache-ttl 7200
> enable-ssh-support
> use-agent
> pinentry-program /run/current-system/profile/bin/pinentry-gnome3
>
> Hope this solves your problem.
>
> Cheers
> Reza

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Re: gpg: problem with the agent: No pinentry

[Luis Felipe]

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Reza, Sébastien, Cairn, thanks to your help it works now.

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Re: gpg: problem with the agent: No pinentry

[Cairn]

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I remember running into some sort of issue as well.

Chiming in with Reza, here's my `~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf` file:

    allow-loopback-pinentry

And my `~/.gnupg/gpg.conf` file:

    use-agent
    pinentry-mode loopback

The result is a prompt for my password directly in the terminal. Hope this helps.

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