On Wednesday, 17 January 2018 06:47:27 GMT Alexander Ben Nasrallah wrote: > On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 10:51:40PM -0700, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > > When I try to decrypt a file I get: > > > > gpg2 text.asc > > ... > > gpg: public key decryption failed: No pinentry > > gpg: decryption failed: No secret key > > > > app-crypt/pinentry-1.0.0-r2 is installed > > Sometime you have to set one of the following. > > # PIN entry program > pinentry-program /usr/bin/pinentry-curses # no X > pinentry-program /usr/bin/pinentry-qt > pinentry-program /usr/bin/pinentry-kwallet > pinentry-program /usr/bin/pinentry-gtk-2 > > to whatever suits you in ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf. > > Hope that helps.
Or, instead of the above it should have: pinentry-program /usr/bin/pinentry which is a symlink to the pinentry GUI used by the system. In any case this file will be set up by /usr/bin/gpgconf, which is run when a GUI application calls gnupg, rather than edited manually by the user. -- Regards, Mick
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