Re: [gentoo-user] gpg2 - error gpg: public key decryption failed: No pinentry
On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 07:30:15AM -0700, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > On 01/17/2018 07:20 AM, Mick wrote: >> On Wednesday, 17 January 2018 13:51:20 GMT the...@sys-concept.com wrote: >>> OK, "gpg2 text.asc" it works now at the computer terminal but when I >>> log-in over "ssh" >>> it still giving me same error. >> >> Have you logged in as a user which has a key pair configured on the PC? > > I just copied 'scp' entire subfolder ".gnupg/" from one system to > another. It works when I click on the file at the computer but not over > ssh. > Have you tried pinentry-curses? I'm not sure if qt version works over ssh.
Re: [gentoo-user] gpg2 - error gpg: public key decryption failed: No pinentry
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.
