On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 11:43:45PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > Package: obnam > Version: 1.1-1.1 > Severity: normal > > When running obnam on a system that has no X server, but then > trying to use encryption, obnam simply fails with > > ERROR: gpg: cancelled by user > gpg: decryption failed: secret key not available > > I suspect this is due to the fact that obnam is using the TTY > and thus the TTY-based gpg-agent query dialog can't get the > TTY to query for the password. > > Just running "gpg --sign" or so works fine and does query for > the password. I could "pre-provision" the key, but then I'd > also have to specify that it can never time out, otherwise > obnam will fail in the middle of a long-running operation.
I don't know how the non-gui gpg-agents work. If they require access to the tty, you could try running Obnam with the --quiet option. Does that work? -- http://www.cafepress.com/trunktees -- geeky funny T-shirts http://gtdfh.branchable.com/ -- GTD for hackers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
