Creating a key with no encryption is annoying

[Kyle Fazzari]

So I want to create a serial key, meant for the serial vault. This key must have no password. Normally I'd run `snapcraft create-key`, but that just calls `snap create-key`, which looks like this:

$ snap create-key serial
Passphrase: # I pressed enter here
Confirm passphrase: # And enter here

And instead of just creating a key with no passphrase, it actually popped up a graphical dialog box asking for passphrases again. I again didn't provide any passphrase, and then the dialog asked me to confirm that I actually wanted to create an unprotected key.

Can that workflow be a bit better? This doesn't happen when a passphrase IS provided, so snapd may need logic to determine if no password was provided in which case perhaps an extra flag may need to be passed onto gpg.

$ snap version
snap 2.37.1.1+18.04
snapd 2.37.1.1+18.04
series 16
ubuntu 18.04
kernel 4.15.0-45-generic

[John Lenton (chipaca)]

It really looks like you've got some extra `askpass` configuration that we're picking up somehow. I'd like to know more :-)

[Ian Johnson (anonymouse67)]

I see this as well on ubuntu 18.04.2 with snap version:

snap 2.39.2+git1352.4951e79~ubuntu16.04.1
snapd 2.39.2+git1352.4951e79~ubuntu16.04.1
series 16
ubuntu 18.04
kernel 4.15.0-52-generic