[Bug 364367] New: GPG passphrase goes not work any more after upgrade to openSUSE 10.3
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=364367 Summary: GPG passphrase goes not work any more after upgrade to openSUSE 10.3 Product: openSUSE 10.3 Version: Final Platform: x86-64 OS/Version: openSUSE 10.3 Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Other AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: alexander.koenig@koenig-a.de QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: Customer My PGP/GPG passphrase that I am using since years was not accepted any more on my openSUSE 10.3 system - it worked perfectly with the GPG version distributed with SuSE Linux 10.1. It is impossible to change the passphrase if the old one does not work. Fortunately I had another computer available with 10.1 still installed, which helped me to work around this problem: I copied my GPG environment over to the 10.1 machine Changed my passphrase to a new one not containing the letter "ä" (Umlaut) any more Copied this new GPG environment back to the 10.3 system Now GPG on the 10.3 system works with the new passphrase A warning in the release notes would have been helpful. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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Petr Uzel
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Petr Uzel
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Alexander König
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--- Comment #11 from Petr Uzel
However, the problem might not be gpg itself but its integration into the openSUSE 10.3 environment: since 10.3 gpg opens a new X-Window for entering the passphrase, even if initiated from a text console.
OpenSUSE 10.3 was the first release with gnupg 2.x which uses pinentry to get passphrase from the user (former gnupg version did not use any external utility at all and thus worked only with console).
I did not find how to run gpg entirely in console mode. Is there a switch to turn off opening a window for passphrase entering - to enable entering the passphrase on a text console?
There's a script /usr/bin/pinentry that tries to find out the correct binary to call - pinentry-qt/-qtk/-curses (this is not a simple task BTW). So if you want to enforce gpg to call pinentry-curses, you can adjust the script or directly replace it with the right binary. I'll do some more investigation but I'm pretty convinced that the bug is caused by already solved UTF-8 problems and that it would not happen again with newly created passphrases... -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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Petr Uzel
I'll give it a try on the weekend creating a new passphrase with an Umlaut
I've just tested it and it works for me, so I'll close this bug. Thanks for your help! -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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