On 7/11/2017 11:10 AM, Garber, Dave (GE Oil & Gas, Non-GE) wrote: > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com] On >> Behalf Of jeff >> Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2017 1:56 PM >> To: cygwin@cygwin.com >> Subject: EXT: Re: problem with gnupg2 not prompting for passphrase >> >> On 7/11/2017 10:51 AM, Brian Inglis wrote: >>> On 2017-07-10 23:07, Thomas Wolff wrote: >>>> Am 11.07.2017 um 00:38 schrieb jeff: >>>>> On 7/10/2017 1:21 PM, Achim Gratz wrote: >>>>>> jeff writes: >>>>>>> jeff_xeon:/cygdrive/u:503: gpg2 --output fred.good --decrypt >>>>>>> fred.gpg >>>>>>> gpg: encrypted with 4096-bit RSA key, ID A3791E7DD935A424, created >>>>>>> 2013-03-21 >>>>>>> "Jeff Deifik <j...@jeffunit.com>" >>>>>>> gpg: public key decryption failed: No such device or address >>>>>>> gpg: decryption failed: No secret key >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I have uninstalled the standalone version of gnupg2 before I did this. >>>>>>> It seems most likely that the version of gpg2 being invoked is a >>>>>>> cygwin version. >>>>>> It fails to find your private key, so it is quite obviously not in >>>>>> a place where gpg2 expects to find it. >>>>> I have my keys stored in $HOME/.gnupg which is where gnupg v1 >> expects them. >>> >>> gnupg2 uses the same --homedir paths, $GNUPGHOME env var, native >>> Windows reg key, and native Windows portable apps homedir as gnupg1. >>> >>>> Just guessing: Some software does not look in $HOME for config files (e.g. >>>> openssh) but expects them in /home/... >>> >>> OpenSSH expects user config files in ~/.ssh/ where ~ is $HOME, or the >>> home directory from "getent passwd $LOGNAME", which defaults to /. >>> >>> They'd better expect $HOME, not /home/$LOGNAME, as $HOME could >> also be >>> /u/$LOGNAME, /mnt/nfs/OrkeyDorkey, or /mnt/Network\ Users/Orkey\ >>> Dorkey! ;^> >>> >> >> The problem almost certainly lies with pinentry. It seems to be a new feature > > See https://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2017-07/msg00100.html for the solution.
That did fix the issue. No doubt pinentry needs to be fixed to call pinentry-w32 when appropriate. I can now use gpg2 via bash as well as via thunderbird / engmail. thanks, jeff -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple