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and subject line Re: Bug#712091: obnam: doesn't work without X gpg agent
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regarding obnam: doesn't work without X gpg agent
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Package: obnam
Version: 1.1-1.1
Severity: normal
When running obnam on a system that has no X server, but then
trying to use encryption, obnam simply fails with
ERROR: gpg: cancelled by user
gpg: decryption failed: secret key not available
I suspect this is due to the fact that obnam is using the TTY
and thus the TTY-based gpg-agent query dialog can't get the
TTY to query for the password.
Just running "gpg --sign" or so works fine and does query for
the password. I could "pre-provision" the key, but then I'd
also have to specify that it can never time out, otherwise
obnam will fail in the middle of a long-running operation.
johannes
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.8.0 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
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On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 12:23:35AM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> Generally though it seems that it expects to read the $GPG_TTY
> environment variable somehow ... not really sure how this is all
> supposed to work though.
>
> I guess for now I have a workaround, but it's a bit strange.
Since obnam isn't involved in how gpg or gpg-agent asks the user for
the password, I'm going to close this bug report. Obnam just runs gpg,
and it's the user's responsibility to confiure gpg/gpg-agent for their
environment so they work, I'm afraid.
Sorry about the hassle.
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I want to build worthwhile things that might last. --joeyh
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