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From: thelma@×××××××××××.com
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] gpg2 - error gpg: public key decryption failed: No pinentry
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2018 14:30:17
Message-Id: e4ea79bf-835b-88a9-6627-24937076aca7@sys-concept.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] gpg2 - error gpg: public key decryption failed: No pinentry by Mick
1 On 01/17/2018 07:20 AM, Mick wrote:
2 > On Wednesday, 17 January 2018 13:51:20 GMT thelma@×××××××××××.com wrote:
3 >> On 01/16/2018 11:47 PM, Alexander Ben Nasrallah wrote:
4 >>> On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 10:51:40PM -0700, thelma@×××××××××××.com wrote:
5 >>>> When I try to decrypt a file I get:
6 >>>>
7 >>>> gpg2 text.asc
8 >>>> ...
9 >>>> gpg: public key decryption failed: No pinentry
10 >>>> gpg: decryption failed: No secret key
11 >>>>
12 >>>> app-crypt/pinentry-1.0.0-r2 is installed
13 >>>
14 >>> Sometime you have to set one of the following.
15 >>>
16 >>> # PIN entry program
17 >>> pinentry-program /usr/bin/pinentry-curses # no X
18 >>> pinentry-program /usr/bin/pinentry-qt
19 >>> pinentry-program /usr/bin/pinentry-kwallet
20 >>> pinentry-program /usr/bin/pinentry-gtk-2
21 >>>
22 >>> to whatever suits you in ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf.
23 >>>
24 >>> Hope that helps.
25 >>
26 >> OK, "gpg2 text.asc" it works now at the computer terminal but when I
27 >> log-in over "ssh"
28 >> it still giving me same error.
29 >
30 > Have you logged in as a user which has a key pair configured on the PC?
31
32 I just copied 'scp' entire subfolder ".gnupg/" from one system to
33 another. It works when I click on the file at the computer but not over
34 ssh.

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Re: [gentoo-user] gpg2 - error gpg: public key decryption failed: No pinentry Alexander Ben Nasrallah <me@×××.sh>