From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1B9A13877A for ; Sun, 6 Jul 2014 15:29:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EFB3CE0848; Sun, 6 Jul 2014 15:29:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ig0-f176.google.com (mail-ig0-f176.google.com [209.85.213.176]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E5EBEE083A for ; Sun, 6 Jul 2014 15:29:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ig0-f176.google.com with SMTP id c1so10008069igq.15 for ; Sun, 06 Jul 2014 08:29:03 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=FiPeDV/wSCuMbFuUlaWTUL+0u1JyR0tMJadjfUBgGjc=; b=W7f2/WRPI1IEnxeMeVwmvbHabnoID1RluFMeiO3q10QqtBs/4+OItIPw8WO4ogx5sZ hzBv5C2IURNJBf1imCBvri8b7GP/DjkmPIr3pfcEgzU0RqhPkqHMe+ol8nLCiurMUm8/ d+bEsKugLLDVsyjDErgNltVuE/8V9iwO2kZd6s+hmFPeK1L5EKXMajMeYr+81+RjV5fg KoYqH+qbhgzbPEql2yVyRKUddr7dGKByqQHkR/3ZTO4L9uHySBoQKlwW7RHoyL6dpjUk bLjpyszUB0C0AJZuPhh6V+Dc6yiy7h82zY9sbPhQJqXJpUwb4UaQ8IccCrX/yHItDZ2Q p/4w== Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.42.161.132 with SMTP id t4mr27437155icx.34.1404660543057; Sun, 06 Jul 2014 08:29:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.42.115.201 with HTTP; Sun, 6 Jul 2014 08:29:03 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2014 08:29:03 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How does ssh know to use "pinentry"? From: Chris Stankevitz To: "gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: b80aca26-b94c-47a2-b91c-a27bbd9ce6fe X-Archives-Hash: 76c0c7f9ab3239267fb93a28b47e3d56 On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 3:25 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: > Typically they are launched from a bash profile, or an X11 startup > script. KDE/Gnome look like they have it in their default scripts. > Just grep -r gpg-agent /etc and you'll find where it is being loaded > if you didn't add them to your own startup scripts in /home. Rich, Thank you again. My bash history shows ssh-agent being executed in the past, but I'm still not sure where gpg-agent came from. > Using gpg-agent is considered a best practice in general, so I > wouldn't go getting rid of it unless it is really causing you > problems. You haven't mentioned what issue you're actually having > with it/pinentry/etc. FYI pinentry frustrates me because: 1. pinentry-gtk and pinentry-qt do not allow me to "paste" my passphrase. My passphrase is difficult to type. I keep my passphrase in keepass. 2. Supposedly pinentry-curses will let me paste; however, pinentry-curses doesn't work. https://www.gnupg.org/documentation/manuals/gnupg/Common-Problems.html suggests that my problem is a misconfigured GPG_TTY environment variable. At this point though I'm not even interested in using it anymore. At the moment pinentry is no longer installed on my system so these "problems" should be gone. If/when I understand what is going on, I'll reinstall them. FYI I removed pinentry with: tail /etc/portage/package.use # 2014-07-05 Avoid pinentry dev-vcs/git -gpg mail-client/thunderbird -crypt tail /etc/portage/package.mask # 2014-07-05 Avoid password entry program that disallows paste app-crypt/pinentry Chris