Re: gpg-agent problems...

From: Christian Hiris (4711_at_chello.at)
Date: 05/20/04

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    To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, ecrist@secure-computing.net
    Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 21:11:53 +0200
    
    
    

    On Thursday 20 May 2004 19:23, Eric Crist wrote:
    > Hello list,
    >
    > First off, please respond to me in a CC, as I'm not subscribed to this
    > list.
    >
    > Secondly, I've set this up a few times now, and it's always just worked,
    > but this time I've got errors. I'm trying to set up the pgp/MIME plugin.
    > Everything is working fine, except I never get the pinentry-qt window.
    > When I try to run the test, listed on
    > http://kmail.kde.org/kmail-pgpmime-howto.html, I get the following:
    >
    > %echo "test" | gpg -ase -r 0x3290089C | gpg
    >
    > You need a passphrase to unlock the secret key for
    > user: "Eric F Crist <ecrist@adtechintegrated.com>"
    > 1024-bit DSA key, ID 33114086, created 2004-01-06

    Does the window open when you use your default key? It's defined in
    ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf or whatever name you choosed for the config file.

    Try %echo "test" | gpg -ase -r 0x33114086 | gpg

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    Christian Hiris <4711@chello.at> | OpenPGP KeyID 0x941B6B0B 
    OpenPGP-Key at hkp://wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net and http://pgp.mit.edu
    
    



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