[Bug 337988] New: gnupg using pinentry-qt exclusively for passphrase entry

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30 Oct 2007 30 Oct '07

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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=337988 Summary: gnupg using pinentry-qt exclusively for passphrase entry Product: openSUSE 10.3 Version: Final Platform: i686 OS/Version: openSUSE 10.3 Status: NEW Severity: Major Priority: P5 - None Component: Other AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: hatchmt@gmail.com QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: --- I noticed that when using the cryptography plugin for kopete, I was getting prompted by pinentry-qt upon receipt of each encrypted message, whereas in 10.2 kopete would cache my passphrase for me. Later, I noticed that when running gpg from the CLI in a windowed session, it used pinentry-qt for that as well. So as a test, I switched to tty1 and ran gpg. It failed with the following: --------------- matthew@imladris:~> gpg passwords.gpg You need a passphrase to unlock the secret key for user: "<censored for posting in the bug>" 4096-bit ELG key, ID <censored>, created 2005-04-05 (main key ID <censored>) can't connect to `/home/matthew/.gnupg/log-socket': No such file or directory can´t lock memory: Cannot allocate memory Warning: using insecure memory! gpg: cancelled by user gpg: encrypted with 4096-bit ELG key, ID <censored>, created 2005-04-05 "<censored for posting in the bug>" gpg: public key decryption failed: General error gpg: decryption failed: No secret key matthew@imladris:~> --------------- When running in an ssh session, it brings pinentry-ncurses up and decrypts successfully. If this is by design, it's not a good thing. I use runlevel 3 a lot, so gpg from tty1-6 is a necessity. More importantly, it is a major pain to have to enter my passphrase upon receipt of every single message I receive with the kopete-cryptography plugin. FYI, this is reproducible on my i686 laptop, my brother's identical laptop, and my desktop running x86_64, all on 10.3. -- 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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30 Oct 30 Oct

21:32

New subject: [Bug 337988] gnupg using pinentry-qt exclusively for passphrase entry

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=337988 Matthew Hatch changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Priority|P5 - None |P3 - Medium -- 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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31 Oct 31 Oct

17:55

New subject: [Bug 337988] gnupg using pinentry-qt exclusively for passphrase entry

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=337988 Mark Gordon changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |mtgordon@novell.com AssignedTo|bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com |pcerny@novell.com -- 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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10 Dec 10 Dec

22:31

New subject: [Bug 337988] gnupg using pinentry-qt exclusively for passphrase entry

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=337988 User hatchmt@gmail.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=337988#c1 --- Comment #1 from Matthew Hatch 2007-12-10 15:31:23 MST --- Just following up on this bug report -- any reason why gpg2 was chosen over gpg? Is there a way to adapt gpg-agent to not call 'pinentry' for passphrase entry? At the very least, you should package a gpg 1.4 rpm with the distro to give people like me an easy choice. The folks over at GNU still maintain the 1.4 tree for this very reason -- they knew using gpg-agent would cause problems for some apps, so they're still maintaining the old codebase for compatability. gpg 1.4 is a really small package in comparison to some really useless stuff you include in the distro, so it should be trivial to drop it in there. :) Just my thoughts -- I can tell that this is a really low priority for you guys, so I just uninstalled gpg2 and created my own rpm for 1.4 which fixed my problem, but I'd like to see both versions made available in the standard distro so people who don't like installing from scratch (or rolling their own rpms) can have an easy workaround to this problem. Thanks. -- 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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20 Dec 20 Dec

12:11

New subject: [Bug 337988] gnupg using pinentry-qt exclusively for passphrase entry

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=337988 User nadvornik@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=337988#c2 Vladimir Nadvornik changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |nadvornik@novell.com --- Comment #2 from Vladimir Nadvornik 2007-12-20 05:11:16 MST --- /usr/bin/pinentry is a script that should choose and run appropriate pinentry for given environment. It works for me without problems, even in console. Maybe you can run "sh -x /usr/bin/pinentry" and check what fails.

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Is there a way to adapt gpg-agent to not call 'pinentry' for passphrase entry? Here I don't understand what you want to achieve. The gpg-agent calls pinentry just once and then it uses cached password. It works at least on my machine.

To the choice of gpg2: supporting two versions forever is impractical, so we decided to switch to gpg2 and work on fixing possible problems. -- 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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21:09

New subject: [Bug 337988] gnupg using pinentry-qt exclusively for passphrase entry

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=337988 User hatchmt@gmail.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=337988#c3 --- Comment #3 from Matthew Hatch 2007-12-20 14:09:54 MST --- Trying gpg2 in tty1 works now. I don't know why, as nothing has changed. So that's a non-issue at this point. The passphrase-caching is still an issue, though, specifically in Kopete's cryptography plugin. When receiving gpg'd IM's, kopete asks for the passphrase, then pinentry-qt jumps in to ask again. Thereafter, kopete has the passphrase cached, but pinentry will prompt for the passphrase upon every message received. -- 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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25 Feb 25 Feb

15:02

New subject: [Bug 337988] gnupg using pinentry-qt exclusively for passphrase entry

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=337988 User pcerny@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=337988#c4 Petr Cerny changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |hatchmt@gmail.com --- Comment #4 from Petr Cerny 2008-02-25 08:02:07 MST --- "works now" means you get text pinentry-curses dialog or directly gpg passphrase prompt? -- 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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15:27

New subject: [Bug 337988] gnupg using pinentry-qt exclusively for passphrase entry

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=337988 User hatchmt@gmail.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=337988#c5 Matthew Hatch changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW Info Provider|hatchmt@gmail.com | --- Comment #5 from Matthew Hatch 2008-02-25 08:27:00 MST --- "works now" means that in tty1 I get the pinentry-curses dialog. It was probably just a fluke on my end that I fixed somehow. Still waiting to hear about passphrase caching in apps like Kopete... -- 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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30 Apr 30 Apr

14:56

New subject: [Bug 337988] gnupg using pinentry-qt exclusively for passphrase entry

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=337988 User pcerny@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=337988#c6 Petr Cerny changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |pcerny@novell.com, peterph@centrum.cz AssignedTo|pcerny@novell.com |nadvornik@novell.com --- Comment #6 from Petr Cerny 2008-04-30 08:56:46 MST --- Leaving SUSE - reassigning to Vladimir. Matthew, do you still have the problem with kopete in kde4? -- 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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15 May 15 May

09:24

New subject: [Bug 337988] gnupg using pinentry-qt exclusively for passphrase entry

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=337988 User nadvornik@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=337988#c7 Vladimir Nadvornik changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|nadvornik@novell.com |puzel@novell.com --- Comment #7 from Vladimir Nadvornik 2008-05-15 03:24:37 MST --- new maintainer -- 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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21 May 21 May

16:13

New subject: [Bug 337988] gnupg using pinentry-qt exclusively for passphrase entry

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=337988 User mhatch@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=337988#c8 Matthew Hatch changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |mhatch@novell.com --- Comment #8 from Matthew Hatch 2008-05-21 10:13:58 MST --- To answer Petr's question: I do not have KDE4 installed in my openSUSE 10.3 install, but when I installed openSUSE 11 Beta 3, the version of Kopete packaged with it does not include the cryptography plugin. Thus, I have not been able to test whether it works in KDE4 or not. I'll do a quick backup of my data, upgrade to KDE4 on my 10.3 machine, and will let you know if it works there or not. I'm a skeptic, though. -- 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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22 May 22 May

16:53

New subject: [Bug 337988] gnupg using pinentry-qt exclusively for passphrase entry

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=337988 User mhatch@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=337988#c9 --- Comment #9 from Matthew Hatch 2008-05-22 10:53:24 MST --- According to kde.org, the cryptography plugin is not part of the 0.50.x release yet, so it is impossible to test under KDE4 using the newer chat client. We need to focus on getting this working on the 0.12.x release series in KDE3. For the record, I tried using 0.12.6 while using KDE 4.0.4 and it had the same behavior where pinentry prompts me every time for my passphrase even though kopete has it cached. -- 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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26 May 26 May

06:33

New subject: [Bug 337988] gnupg using pinentry-qt exclusively for passphrase entry

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=337988 Petr Uzel changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |ASSIGNED -- 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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08:44

New subject: [Bug 337988] gnupg using pinentry-qt exclusively for passphrase entry

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=337988 User puzel@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=337988#c10 --- Comment #10 from Petr Uzel 2008-05-26 02:44:13 MDT --- Matthew, please check your settings in Kopete->Settings->Modules->Cryptography. Is that all OK? -- 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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27 May 27 May

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New subject: [Bug 337988] gnupg using pinentry-qt exclusively for passphrase entry

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=337988 User mhatch@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=337988#c11 --- Comment #11 from Matthew Hatch 2008-05-27 08:10:03 MDT --- Petr, Yes, the cryptography plugin settings are correct. Kopete caches my passphrase perfectly if I "downgrade" to gpg 1.4.9. The extra prompts to enter my passphrase are not generated by Kopete, but by pinentry/gpgagent. -- 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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New subject: [Bug 337988] gnupg using pinentry-qt exclusively for passphrase entry

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=337988 User puzel@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=337988#c12 --- Comment #12 from Petr Uzel 2008-05-27 08:24:12 MDT --- Matthew, thanks for your reply. I just wanted to make sure before I do any further investigation. -- 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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18 Jun 18 Jun

12:32

New subject: [Bug 337988] gnupg using pinentry-qt exclusively for passphrase entry

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=337988 User puzel@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=337988#c13 --- Comment #13 from Petr Uzel 2008-06-18 06:32:09 MDT --- I've just tested it and it works perfectly for me in 11.0. Matthew, what exactly do you mean by "kopete has the passphrase cached"? I think that what you want to achieve is that the passphrase is cached by gpg-agent (and not kopete), right? This brings me to another question: are you sure that kopete 'uses' gpg-agent correctly? How do you start gpg-agent? If gpg-agent works in console (i.e. signing with gpg), you could try to start kopete from console too and test the cryptography plugin. -- 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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24 Jun 24 Jun

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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=337988 Petr Uzel changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|ASSIGNED |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |hatchmt@gmail.com -- 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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27 Jun 27 Jun

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New subject: [Bug 337988] gnupg using pinentry-qt exclusively for passphrase entry

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=337988 User puzel@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=337988#c14 --- Comment #14 from Petr Uzel 2008-06-27 01:33:52 MDT --- Matthew, do you still have problems with kopete cryptography plugin? I can not reproduce it without your help. Thanks, Petr -- 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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30 Jun 30 Jun

13:14

New subject: [Bug 337988] gnupg using pinentry-qt exclusively for passphrase entry

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=337988 User puzel@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=337988#c15 Petr Uzel changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |RESOLVED Info Provider|hatchmt@gmail.com | Resolution| |NORESPONSE --- Comment #15 from Petr Uzel 2008-06-30 07:14:55 MDT --- Because Matthew is not responding and moreover it works for me in 11.0, closing as NORESPONSE. -- 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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