In addition, for the case I use pinentry-qt4, $ ls -lrt /usr/bin/pin* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 Jul 17 2013 /usr/bin/pinentry -> /etc/alternatives/pinentry -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 152904 Jan 24 12:29 /usr/bin/pinentry-qt4 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 30 Jun 3 10:57 /usr/bin/pinentry-x11 -> /etc/alternatives/pinentry-x11
lina@debian:~/.gnupg$ ls -lrt /etc/alternatives/pinentry lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Jun 3 11:30 /etc/alternatives/pinentry -> /usr/bin/pinentry-qt4 in ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf I have commented out # use-agent and in $ more gpg-agent.conf ###+++--- GPGConf ---+++### pinentry-program /usr/bin/pinentry-qt4 default-cache-ttl 60 max-cache-ttl 600 it doesn't popup any input dialog window in this case except telling me a bad passphrase (no idea from where it reads such passphrase) Thanks, On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 11:20 AM, lina <[email protected]> wrote: > I also notice this > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=27;bug=401957 > > but not sure it is relevant. since it doesn't happen before. > > and I am striving to find out where they save/cache the passphrase? > > > On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 11:07 AM, lina <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I use icedove + enigmail for encryption with the pinentry-gtk2 as >> gpg-agent in the past. >> >> It worked well until yesterday I added a new email account with new gpg >> key for it. >> >> When the pop-up asked for passphrase, I just can't input anything inside. >> >> Later I tried the pinentry-qt4 and pinentry-curses, there is even no >> popup except telling me bad passphrases. >> >> Thanks ahead for any suggestions? >> >> Best regards, lina >> > >
