Re: org-passwords.el and encryption

[Julien Cubizolles <j.cubizolles@free.fr>]

Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:

> On Wednesday, 27 Apr 2016 at 16:24, Julien Cubizolles wrote:
>> there must be something wrong with my setup: keychain complains:
>>
>> * Adding 1 gpg key(s): 370D5DFF
>> * Error: Problem adding (is pinentry installed?); giving up
>
> Which version(s) of pinentry do you have installed?

I have pinentry-gnome3, pinentry-curses, pinentry-tty, and I try with
all 3 of them, setup with update-alternatives. The error remains the
same.

> And is this error from your .profile (i.e. console login) 

yes (from .bash_profile actually)

> or is it when you try manually?

also, running:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
keychain --eval --agents ssh,gpg id_rsa MYGPGKEY
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
in a non login shell.

Regards,

Julien.