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In short (Edit 1): How to make gpg -qd --pinentry-mode loopback out.gpg cache the passphrase for a period of time in the cli. It used to cache but now it doesn't. Edit 2: I have tried this thing in ...
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I have 2 video cards and installed the nvidia driver: ❯ lspci -nnk | grep -iA3 -E "(vga|NVIDIA).*(controller|GeForce)" 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation HD Graphics ...
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How to call pinentry from bash script so I am prompted for single input on the same terminal from which my script was invoked from and then pipe the entry to some other command via stdout for the sake ...
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There are 2 users: user1 and user2. When trying to use gpg via sudo (symmetric decryption): user1@host: sudo -u user2 gpg /home/user2/pass.gpg an error gpg: decryption failed: No secret key. I set it ...
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I can't decrypt my passwords with pass neither with gpg directly. gpg: encrypted with rsa4096 key, ID id, created creation_date "name <email>" gpg: public key decryption ...
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This is the content of my .gnupg/gpg-agent.conf: pinentry-program /usr/bin/pinentry-curses When I try to retrieve a password from pass' store, e.g. via pass -c path/to/password in a very small-sized ...
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When forwarding my gpg-agent to a remote server I am able to see the my private key listed. Even though I unlocked my key locally I still need to unlock it on the remote machine. However when I try to ...
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Having a hard time figuring out the debugging steps for this behavior. I'll run some gpg command and, typically, about 20 seconds later a GUI Pinentry window will pop up where I type in my password ...
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I am trying to decrypt a gpg file inside a script. When I run gpg -d file.gpg in the terminal, I get prompted to enter the password in a curses dialog box. But when I run a script containing that line,...
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I have some libreoffice documents stored with "encrypt with gpg key" option. Today I was quite surprised when the document opened without requesting a passphrase. Eventually I found an ...
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So I have pinentry popping up whenever I fresh boot my desktop environment (i3), asking for my main GPG main key password. I perhaps configured at some point some program to read some pass entry, but ...
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I use pinentry-qt most of the time, but in the specific case that I'm using pass, I would like to use pinentry-curses because of the faster startup time. Is there a way that I can configure pass to ...
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I am using gnome-keyring as ssh-agent on my arch/ xfce system. Since I have multiple ssh-keys, I additionally have a password manager to store their keys. Adding those ssh-keys to the keyring works ...
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I was was using gpg --gen-key till I got to enter the passphrase where I get: ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ Please enter Passphrase, │ │ ...
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I'm having some trouble getting gpg (actually pass which uses gpg in the background) to work inside of tmux and a Yubikey Neo. When attempting to decrypt a file or sign something using gpg I get the ...
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