Currently my pinentry program is set the same on my laptop as my desktop. Active 3 years, 11 months ago. M-x customize-group RET epa RET Then set âEpa Pinentry Modeâ to âloopbackâ and apply. It is used as a backend for gpg ⦠> gpg2 text.asc > ... > gpg: public key decryption failed: End of file > gpg: decryption failed: No secret key This says you don't have a private key configured. ⦠As of GnuPG 2.0, no need to install gpg-agent seperately. This will run in the background, but it can be accessed by using the jobscommand, and similarly stopped using the kill command. 1) Create a temporary config dir for gpg/aga-agent. What do I need to set to force the use of the GUI on the desktop? I am trying to setup svn to store my svn password in gpg-agent. I can list my private and public keys on the remote host. 2. answered 2013-09-10 12:36:09 -0600. nonamedotc 1789 2 17 46. Make sure you have installed pinentry-gtk or pinentry-qt packages. Process monitor showed that in Windows this file expected to be in "C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\gnupg\gpg-agent.conf" Action. Gpg-agent is taking care of the key authentication. Yet another way is creat- ing a new process as a child of gpg-agent: gpg-agent ⦠On some virtual server, several tools such as mbsync read their authentication data for GPG-encrypted files such as ~/.authinfo.gpg. to hex and send it back to gpg-agent ⦠When trying to create a key with gpg âgen-key, I was getting the error: gpg: problem with the agent: No pinentry To solve this, first check if pinentry is installed. For example gpg2 --pinentry-mode=loopback FILE.gpg may be used to decrypt FILE.gpg ⦠It would certainly help if gnupg tested that pinentry works in the beginning of any action which might require pinentry ⦠Hi, I am using ssh with key authentication and need to enter password upon establishing connection. Manually set PINENTRY_BINARY as was suggested above (or set it in ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf) 2. The result is that keyboard input does not register with pinentry-gtk2. To install this package on Arch based systems, run: $ sudo pacman -S pinentry. Also do not forget to delete or move the log ⦠gpg-agent [--homedir dir] [--options file] [options] gpg-agent [--homedir dir] [--options file] [options] --server gpg-agent [--homedir dir] [--options file] [options] --daemon [command_line] DESCRIPTION gpg-agent is a daemon to manage secret (private) keys independently from any protocol. It is used as a backend for gpg and gpgsm as well as for a couple of other utilities. With GPG 2.1 or later, you also need to set the PIN entry mode to âloopbackâ: gpg --batch -c --pinentry-mode loopback --passphrase-file ⦠The loopback mode weakens this idea. As you in the above command, it shows there is "no Pinentry" package. The OpenSSH Agent protocol is always enabled, but gpg-agent will only set the SSH_AUTH_SOCK variable if this flag is given. The rationale for requiring an option is that only gpg-agent and pinentry shall be responsible for the passphrase to protect a key. In this mode of operation, the agent does not only implement the gpg-agent protocol, but also the agent protocol used by OpenSSH (through a separate socket). svn setup with gpg-agent and pinentry-(tty|curses) Ask Question Asked 3 years, 11 months ago. The pinentry can be run independently for testing and debugging with the following syntax: Usage: crypt-gpg-pinentry ⦠On RPM based systems: $ sudo yum install pinentry. So, in the internet there are lot of posts where people advices create file with properties - 'gpg-agent.conf', but usually it's about linux. I have GPG agent forwarding via SSH RemoteForward working up to a point. To get the SSH agent ⦠I can skip the forwarding and SSH to said remote host and start an agent⦠Configure EasyPG Assistant to use loopback for pinentry . Since the ssh-agent protocol does not contain a mechanism for telling the agent on which display/terminal it is running, gpg-agent's ssh-support will use the TTY or X display where gpg-agent has been started. The actual communication path between the relevant components is as follows: gpg --> gpg-agent --> pinentry --> Emacs where pinentry and ⦠No user- interaction required. I would always like to use the GUI version of entering my GPG passphrase. See gpg-agent(1) export GPG_TTY= " $(tty) " # Set PINENTRY_USER_DATA so pinentry-auto knows to present a text UI. That works fine in general but recently ⦠But the desktop always asks for my passphrase on the command line, and my laptop always asks using the GUI. Because gpg-agent prints out important information required for further use, a common way of invoking gpg-agent is: eval $(gpg-agent --daemon) to setup the environment variables. Unset DISPLAY prior to working with gnupg over SSH 4. On Debian systems, use: a⦠export PINENTRY⦠The standard input and output of pinentry are pipes over ⦠gpg: agent_genkey failed: No pinentry Key generation failed: No pinentry. 4) Export the new key. I'm trying to configure gpg/ggp-agent to make it usable without a GUI environment. 1st: start gpg-agent --pinentry-program (my own pinentry) 2nd: do all the stuff with gpgme (using --gnupghome to access the keys and settings for the user I'm currently acting for) 3rd: kill the gpg-agent process. It seems that gpg-agent does not respect these options.Setting the pinentry program to /usr/bin/pinentry-tty seems to invoke the pinentry program on the daemon's terminal (or else fail to use agent if the agent⦠I need to change that to tty or curses. For the time being, either change the /usr/bin/pinentry But how to set up pinentry-program? :) Alternatively, ensure that at least one of pinentry-gtk or pinentry ⦠Also I have been using GPG on Windows and Linux for many years and haven’t had any of these usability issues.
The main feature I miss is being able to select a key for an address that doesn’t have a key with a matching userid. First, we need to check that gpg can see the YubiKey when it is plugged in -- If it does not, check section "Extras: gpg does not detect ⦠$ echo "display :0" >> ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf You can also set the GPG_TTY environment variable if you're not using a graphical session. Name gpg-agent - Secret key management for GnuPG Synopsis gpg-agent [--homedir dir] [--options file] [options] gpg-agent [--homedir dir] [--options file] [options] --server gpg-agent [--homedir dir] [--options file] [options] --daemon [command_line] Description gpg-agent is a daemon to manage secret (private) keys independently from any protocol. The option --write-env-file is another way commonly used to do this. allow-emacs-pinentry allow-loopback-pinentry Then tell gpg-agent to load this configuration with gpgconf in a shell: gpgconf --reload gpg-agent 2. 3) Use this temporary config dir for creating the key (or for changing its passphrase). Create file "C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\gnupg\gpg-agent⦠See "Extras: gpg-agent bridge" for details. The reason ⦠The solution was so simple: $ unset DISPLAY edit flag offensive delete link more add a comment . I have gpg2 provided by Ubuntu 16.04 LTS as 2.1.11; I have already set all options except the pinentry program. Viewed 964 times 0. ... For the former only, omit updatestartuptty # ssh-agent protocol can't tell gpg-agent/pinentry what tty to use, so tell it # if GPG agent has locked up or there is a stale remote agent, remove # the stale socket and possible local agent. To set up GPG as an ssh agent, I recommend use of the following function in your .bashrc/ or .zshrc. If you are using the pinentry-gtk2 interface (for entering passphrases with gpg-agent), be aware that there is a bug in the way scim-bridge and the pinentry-gtk2 interact. Assuming the pinentry run is pinentry-curses, it retrieves the options it needs from the gpg-agent server--which includes ttyname set by gpg-connect-agent; and sees a GETPIN command. If you used gpg inside WSL to generate your keys, you will have to first set up a bridge between gpg-agent inside WSL and gpg-agent inside Windows. 2) Create a config file for gpg-agent which replaces pinentry with your own script / program. share | improve this answer | follow | ⦠Hi, I just commited some changes to GnuPG and GPGME to support using GPG without a Pinentry: This new features allows to use gpg without a Pinentry. To switch this display to the current one, the following command may be used: gpg-connect-agent updatestartuptty /bye Although all GnuPG components try to start the gpg-agent ⦠This is an unnecessary overhead (and another re-inventing the wheel) because gpg2/gpgsm already knows how to start gpg-agent on the fly. To use, add "allow-emacs-pinentry" to "~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf", reload the configuration with "gpgconf --reload gpg-agent", and start the server with M-x pinentry-start. Thus the need for an option to allow the use of the loopback pinentry ⦠> In my other boxes I don't have any entry in ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf > and it works OK even over ssh. On DEB based systems: $ sudo apt-get install pinentry ⦠Every time while logging in from another computer running KDE,Gnome, etc a pop-up window for pinentry presented. If I try to decrypt a file remotely, the PIN is prompted for but the text is stepped, garbled and the passphrase prompt echoes the passphrase (at least several random chars). It did't work for me. However, in the majority of use cases gpg-agent is anyway run on the same machine and with the same permissions as gpg. if! As there is no X on the box, my pinentry program would be either pinentry-tty or pinentry-curses. What file is the replacement of gpg-agent.conf or are there any extra processes needed like restarting gpg? gpg-agent invokes the pinentry executable configured by pinentry-program in gpg-agent.conf (default: pinentry, which is managed by the Debian Alternatives System on Debian-based distros) whenever the user must be prompted for a passphrase or PIN. A command-line dummy pinentry program for use with gpg-agent and Crypt_GPG. gnupg-agent 2.0.14-0kk1 (same problem with 2.0.13) and pinentry 0.7.6-0kk1 on Debian lenny: When I want to decrypt or sign mails using mutt ⦠So, it opens, let's say, /dev/pts/3 , as in the example, above, for I/O; puts out a dialog; reads the PIN, converts each char. > > Joseph An entry like those suggested for pinentry ⦠I tried to set pinentry-mac to pinentry-program in gpg-agent.confg as I did in the former versions. # If file exists (likely) copy fragment below into existing script: # If stdin is a terminal if [ -t 0 ]; then # Set GPG_TTY so gpg-agent knows where to prompt. Current ~/.gnupg/gpg ⦠For pinentry in X11 or Wayland you can add the following line to your agent config: # Set a default display for gpg-agent. 5) Import the key file to the regular gpg config dir (delete it ⦠#bashrc: executed by bash(1) for non-login shells. Install graphical pinentry if you are using X11 forwarding 3. By default, gpg-agent (which the new gpg requires) uses the default pinentry command (/usr/bin/pinentry), which is just a link /usr/bin/pinentry-gtk-2. Proposition: If gpg2 would honor a --pinentry ⦠When accessing them first, gnupg will spawn the configured pinentry program to read my passphrase in order to decrypt the file. I was connected by SSH and have enabled X11-in-SSH forwarding, so the variable DISPLAY was set. That's one way to solve it! These will all encrypt file (into file.gpg) using mysuperpassphrase. In emacs, either do. Using The SSH Agent. Whatâs new in GnuPG 2.1. timeout -k 2 1 gpg-connect-agent ⦠Or put this in your ~/.emacs file: (setq epa-pinentry ⦠Option Set debug level to Here you define the details of the information to be recorded. Consequently, it should be possible to use the gpg-agent ⦠This pinentry receives passphrases through en environment variable and automatically enters the PIN in response to gpg-agent requests. Debug level 4 ... \TEMP\gpg-agent.log; Restart Kleopatra (you may have to shut down the pgp-agent via Task Manager, if it is still running), or you log out and log back into your Windows system. As a prerequisite the agent must be configured to allow the loopback pinentry mode (option --allow-loopback-pinentry). gpg --decrypt --pinentry-mode=loopback