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23.3; EasyPG: pinentry in remote emacs session without X

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Roland Winkler <winkler <at> gnu.org>
Subject: bug#8791: closed (Re: bug#8791: 23.3; EasyPG: pinentry in remote
 emacs session without X)
Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2011 06:13:02 +0000

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Your bug report

#8791: 23.3; EasyPG: pinentry in remote emacs session without X

which was filed against the emacs package, has been closed.

The explanation is attached below, along with your original report.
If you require more details, please reply to 8791 <at> debbugs.gnu.org.

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From: Daiki Ueno <ueno <at> unixuser.org>
To: "Roland Winkler" <winkler <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 8791-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#8791: 23.3; EasyPG: pinentry in remote emacs session without X
Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2011 15:12:32 +0900

"Roland Winkler" <winkler <at> gnu.org> writes:

> ...So I assume from your reply that, first of all, gpg does not have
> anything similar to shh-add which is a program the user runs in
> order to talk to the ssh agent.

Ah, sorry, I misinterpreted your question - yes, there is:
gpg-preset-passphrase which is normally installed in /usr/libexec.
I'm not quite sure this is what you want as I seldom use that utility,
but anyway closing this bug for now.

> Anyway: thanks for EasyPG!

Welcome.

Regards,
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Daiki Ueno

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From: Roland Winkler <winkler <at> gnu.org>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 23.3; EasyPG: pinentry in remote emacs session without X
Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2011 19:03:47 -0500

I am running emacs remotely as a child of gpg-agent, but with X
forwarding disabled. If I am trying to visit a gpg-encrypted file, 
I simply get the error message

  File exists, but cannot be read

and I get an empty buffer.

I expect that this is related to the fact that EasyPG does not run
pinentry (or: does not run pinentry properly) if X forwarding is
disabled. If I do enable X forwarding and I try to open a
gpg-encrypted file, a pinentry window pops up, asking me for the
passphrase. Then I can visit gpg-encrypted files as expected.

I would expect that with X forwarding disabled, emacs will ask for the
passphrase in the minibuffer. (I believe I got this behavior when I had
no pinentry program installed.)



In GNU Emacs 23.3.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.9)
 of 2011-06-02 on lukas

Important settings:
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