gpg passphrase no longer prompted for
Bug #1513281 reported by
Phillip Susi
This bug affects 1 person
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gnome-keyring (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
| gnupg2 (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
| ubuntu-meta (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
In 15.04 and prior, when using enigmail to send signed email, it would prompt for my passphrase. Now it fails saying the passphrase is invalid ( without prompting ) This seems to be because we used to use gnome-keyring with gpg support enabled, but gnome-keyring is run without gpg enabled, and so gpg-agent is started, but without the required switches to use pinentry to prompt for the passphrase, so it only works for command line gpg, not gui apps like thunderbird/
Revision history for this message
| Phillip Susi (psusi) wrote | #1 |
Revision history for this message
| Mario Limonciello (superm1) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in gnupg2 (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Invalid |
| Changed in gnome-keyring (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Fix Released |
| Changed in ubuntu-meta (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Invalid |
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It appears that pinentry-gnome3 is listed as task: ubuntu-desktop, and so it should have been installed to handle this, yet it has not. The ubuntu-desktop package does not depend on it so it looks like a problem with meta.