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bug#8791: 23.3; EasyPG: pinentry in remote emacs session without X
From: |
Daiki Ueno |
Subject: |
bug#8791: 23.3; EasyPG: pinentry in remote emacs session without X |
Date: |
Mon, 06 Jun 2011 10:46:05 +0900 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) |
"Roland Winkler" <winkler@gnu.org> writes:
> On Fri Jun 3 2011 Daiki Ueno wrote:
>> Well I think pinentry should fallback to use curses in this case.
>> However it is not currently possible since there is no way to get the
>> tty where Emacs is running. See:
>>
>> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/96207
>
> I do not know much about the internals of gpg. I was wondering: for
> gpg, is there anything similar to the ssh-add command, which could
> serve as a fallback?
I suspect that gpg command installed on your remote system is GPG2,
which is tightly coupled with gpg-agent (and thus pinentry) for secret
key operations by its design.
Assuming that, I could imagine a couple of (insecure) workarounds:
1. install both GPG1 and GPG2
2. keep using GPG2 and write a pinentry program which retrieves
passphrase via emacsclient.
Generally I'd recommend 1, since most distros provide both packages,
which can be installed with no conflict.
Regards,
--
Daiki Ueno