gpg asks for password
Bug #1419618 reported by
Jon
This bug affects 1 person
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Duplicity |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Using Duplicity 0.7.01
Using the --encrypt-key [key] option should avoid being prompted for the password. I am getting a pinentry dialogue asking for the password (either with or without --use-agent).
This might be related to a recent upgrade to GnuPG 2.1, not sure.
It doesn't matter if I enter a correct or incorrect password (or even blank). It still proceeds to back up. My concern is that I want it to run automatically in the background but I can't with pinentry stopping the process.
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FYI, you can solve this problem by loopback- pinentry" to ~/.gnupg/ gpg-agent. conf options= --pinentry- mode=loopback" to duplicity command line options.
1. add "allow-
2. add "--gpg-
See https:/ /wiki.archlinux .org/index. php/GnuPG# Unattended_ passphrase for more detail.