[ale] gpg2 --gen-key requires password which it won't take or use

[arxaaron]

Have you tried turning off SELinux??

  ;-)

(ducks and runs for cover)

peace
aaron

On 2010/12/02, at 16:50 , Jim Kinney wrote:

>
>
> On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Paul Cartwright  
> <ale at pcartwright.com> wrote:
> On 12/02/2010 04:06 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> > Am I going blind? gpg2 --gen-key never asks for a passphrase for  
> the new
> > key generation and yet it fails to create a key pair grousing  
> about no
> > password AND there is no flag to append a password without being it
> > batch mode which is not allowed in the key-gen phase.
>
>  Suggests: gpg-agent (gpg2 --gen-key requires /usr/bin/gpg-agent)
>
>
>
>
> got gpg-agent?
>
> yep. but gpg-agent is for the keyring. which is empty since I HAVE  
> NO KEYS!!!!
>
> tried also gpg --gen-key with same results as /usr/bin/gpg is a link  
> to gpg2
>
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