Re: [SLE] Using gpg-agent and pinentry

On Tuesday 04 February 2003 06:46, Richard Fletcher wrote:

Wanting to get Kmail using PGP/MIME I went through the how to at http://kmail.kde.org/kmail-pgpmime-howto.html and gpg will not work by itself. Have a look at this;

fletch@snoopy:~> gpg --clearsign test2.rss gpg: WARNING: using insecure memory! gpg: please see http://www.gnupg.org/faq.html for more information

You need a passphrase to unlock the secret key for user: "Richard Fletcher " 1024-bit DSA key, ID 20BEEA5E, created 2003-01-20

gpg-agent[28556]: can't connect server: ec=-1 gpg-agent[28556]: can't connect to the PIN entry module: ec=-1 gpg-agent[28556]: command get_passphrase failed: no pin entry gpg: problem with the agent - disabling agent use Enter passphrase:

any ideas?

Not an answer, just an idea... (I plan on setting up PGP/MIME for KMail soon as well). http://www.intevation.de/rt/webrt?serial_num=1497&display=History http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gpa-dev/2002-August/000735.html These two lists seem to describe your problem...