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

[Jim Kinney]

Had you said "Have you tried rebooting" I'd have put you on a list for a
pounding!

:-)

It's looking like the new gpg-agent crap that manages the passphrase process
is just broken for a commandline only situation. It's supposed to popup a
curses-based "now what?" environment but that doesn't work over an ssh
connection. I can manually get an "OK. Your orders please" line out of
pinentry but it seems gpg-agent can't find it _AND_ there is no conf file
around to define it in.

packaging error.

On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 5:48 PM, arxaaron <arxaaron at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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