Hi Fredrik-- On Wed 2017-04-19 15:49:20 +0200, Fredrik Jonson wrote:
> After upgrading to Ubuntu 17.04, gpg does not accept my passphrase. More > precisely, gpg 2.1.15 does not. However, gpg 1.4.21, installed as > gpg1 does accept that very same passphrase. What am I doing wrong? gpg 1.4.x and 2.1.x use different secret keyrings. the first time that 2.1.x runs, it tries to import secret key material from the 1.4.x keyring, but it's possible that this happened before the previous key generation. You can encourage 2.1.x to try that migration again with: rm ~/.gnupg/.gpg-v21-migrated gpg2 --list-secret-keys > In an attempt to narrow the scope of possible causes, I've tried to > instruct gpg2 to not use-agent, but failed. modern GnuPG (v2.1) is designed to only use the agent. on this branch, gpg itself never handles secret key material at all. > Gpg2 still prompts me using a GUI dialog, rather than interactively in > the terminal. Can I, from the command line, tell gpg2 not to use agent > and always prompt me for the passphrase in the terminal rather than > via Gnome or gpg-agent? I'm not sure that this is related to your other question. but if you really prefer to only be prompted in the terminal, you can change the version of pinentry that you have installed to pinentry-curses or pinentry-tty. If you're using this from a graphical environment though, i do not recommend making this change. Stick with the graphical passphrase prompt! > Is gpg2 in general compatible with gpg1? Can I use gpg2 while some of my > recipients keep using gpg1? Or is that a bad idea for some reason? you can use gpg 2.1.x while your correspondents use gpg 1.4.x. but trying to use 2.1.x yourself while also using 1.4.x (the "co-installed case") doesn't work very well in my experience, since there are different secret keyrings, and in practice there can be different public keyrings as well (2.1.x prefers ~/.gnupg/pubring.kbx, but 1.4.x only knows about ~/.gnupg/pubring.gpg). --dkg _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users