Xiyue Deng <manp...@gmail.com> writes:
> On Mon, Dec 09, 2019 at 11:34:38AM +0100, Rudolf Sykora wrote: >> Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2019 11:34:38 +0100 >> From: Rudolf Sykora <rsyk...@disroot.org> >> To: Stefan Hagen <sh+open...@codevoid.de>, OpenBSD Misc Mailing List >> <misc@openbsd.org> >> Cc: Pierre-Emmanuel Andre <p...@openbsd.org> >> Subject: Re: pinentry-tty in OpenBSD? to be used with emacs >> >> >> rsyk...@disroot.org writes: >> >> December 8, 2019 5:45 PM, "Stefan Hagen" <sh+open...@codevoid.de> wrote: >> >> > Stefan Hagen wrote: >> > >> >> Rudolf Sykora wrote: >> >>> On linux, I believe, there is a pinentry-tty program, but that one is >> >>> not available on OpenBSD. >> >> >> >> Have you tried pinentry-curses? I'm using it on my remote machines >> >> to decrypt passwords in my password-store. Works well so far. >> > >> >> Well, the attached patch enables pinentry-tty in security/pinentry. >> >> I tried pinentry-curses. Now I was able to try pinentry-tty, >> too. However, with both I apparently have the same problem. The prompt >> for passphrase is just thrown somewhere into the emacs window, and I am >> not able to enter the password (emacs most probably doesn't know about >> the request for passphrase, it tries to interpret keypresses as commands). >> >> I even tried to enable pinentry-emacs in the pinentry Makefile; it >> is built. But when I choose it for the pinentry-program in >> ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf, at the moment when the passphrase should be >> entered, I get the message >> gpg: problem with the agent: No pinentry. >> >> >> Thanks for any more help. >> >> Ruda >> > > You can try to add "allow-emacs-pinentry" to your gpg-agent.conf and > reconnect gpg-agent and retry. > > Relevant discussion on Reddit: > https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/68xtx1/reliable_way_of_setting_up_gpg_password_input_in/dh2ozi2?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x Thanks for the link. Although it didn't help, I finally, by trial and error, got my emacs to ask for the passphrase. In my case, I changed ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf to just have: allow-emacs-pinentry inside, and in my .emacs I have: (setenv "INSIDE_EMACS" (format "%s,comint" emacs-version)) (pinentry-start) I have installed the pinentry package from M-x list-packages. And then (after pkill emacs gpg-agent ) emacs started to ask me as I wanted. I note that compiling and installing the pinentry-emacs (or pinentry-tty) within the pinentry port seems unnecessary. Furthermore, both lines in my .emacs seem to be essential. It's a pity I still do not understand how the chain really works, but at least it works somehow now. Hope it might help somebody in the future. I lost many hours with such a trivial thing. Best regards Ruda
