It will eventually be fixed by updating the version of pinentry-mac that comes with gnuOSX. Currently my pinentry program is set the same on my laptop as my desktop. From What's New in GnuPG 2.1 (emphasis mine):. This is the only location on OS X where the host application puts files according to the passff documentation. Restart gpg from the terminal with gpgconf --kill gpg-agent. However, when I click on them and select an action, nothing happens (there is no output to the web console either). You should backup this file. It means something keeps states of what you are doing: this is the gpg-agent. This file is also read after a SIGHUP however only a few options will actually have an effect. When I try to decrypt a file via gpg that was encrypted with my Nitrokey, pinentry-mac comes up and asks me to âPlease insert the card with serial numberâ - so the pinentry itself seems to be configured correctly. I confirmed in the passff.py script that the path to pass matches its location in /usr/local/bin/pass, right where homebrew put it. I removed the line got the same error. While trying to build gnupg2, as a dependency the port pinentry-mac fails to build on macOS 10.13 High Sierra with Xcode 9.0. version:1 :debug:main dropping privileges: euid changed to 502, egid changed to 501. :debug:main Executing org.macports.main (pinentry-mac) :debug:main Privilege de-escalation not attempted as not running as root. It caches your passphrase for a while. I had enabled a couple months back a fallback to curses (as other platforms do) for my private version for when I needed to decrypt on an ssh command-line. Hi, guys. brew install pinentry-mac So installing that and trying again may get things working. However, if I'm not logged in (just connected via SSH), pinentry-mac locks up before displaying anything and I have to ^C out of it.
Does pinentry-mac require the WindowServer? It's more or less our code for pinentry-mac, copied into the sub-dir macosx. Re-installing /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Resources/Packages/XcodeSystemResources.pkg fixed the problem for me. I ran echo -e "\x02\x00\x00\x00[]" | /path/to/passff.py | tail -c +4; echo and the output was similar to the empty store output plus my actual files in pass. privacy statement. 2018-10-18T19:54:45Z tag:gpgtools.tenderapp.com,2011-11-04:Comment/29735822 2013-11-01T00:37:25Z 2013-11-01T00:37:25Z Welcome to LinuxQuestions.org, a friendly and active Linux Community. Iâm not going to bother with 2.1 until the Mac guyz come to their senses about not forking the crypto. brew install gnupg21, pinentry-mac (this includes gpg-agent and pinentry) Generate a key: $ gpg --gen-key. The problem is in the interaction of PassFF with its environment: presumably gpg-agent and your pinentry program. Could be a long wait. (2048) 4096 Requested keysize is 4096 bits Please specify how long the key should be valid. I understood your problem because PassFF would sometimes work. Just like pure darwin without OS X will. Contribute to GPGTools/pinentry-mac development by creating an account on GitHub. I triggered this error by not entering my passphrase when I'm supposed to enter it in pinentry. Take the defaults. Whatevs. It has been As per @korseby's suggestion, re-installing /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Resources/Packages/XcodeSystemResources.pkg also fixed the problem for me. Have a question about this project? Try passff. The solution is to: Add pinentry-program /usr/local/bin/pinentry-mac to ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf. Credit to this post by Harpo Jaeger who had a similar problem with enigmail. I tried/confirmed: I deleted any file passff.json in the folder NativeMessagingHosts and reinstalled the latest version of the host application. You signed in with another tab or window. 65 If you use homebrew to install gnupg, it installs pinentry as a dependency. This is a GUI program which seems to work all the time unlike the terminal versions. This is for your consideration. Please let me know if you'd like me to try again either with OSX El Capitan or MacOS Sierra. 63 # 10.7 and below are not supported by pinentry-mac, though, and will default to: 64 # pinentry. It may contain any valid long option; the leading two dashes may not be entered and the option may not be abbreviated. GPGTools installs a lot of things that I donât want to use. I would always like to use the GUI version of entering my GPG passphrase. The easiest way to handle this is to install the Mac pinentry with brew install pinentry-mac. To be honest, your problem is not similar since you don't have the same error in the statusline. > It needs more work to achieve a tidy solution - especially since the > location of pinentry-mac is fixed and it fails to pass any command line > arguments. Successfully merging a pull request may close this issue. [variant_isset pinentry_mac]} {61 # Automatically switch between pinentry and pinentry-mac, with pinentry-mac being: 62 # preferred. The above will take care of passing command-line arguments; the executable location might be handled by a symlink or something. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Tell gpg-agent to use pinentry-mac: $ vim ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf paste in # Connects gpg-agent to the OSX keychain via the brew-installed$ # ⦠), everything seems to be working fine. Do a search of passff.json if you feel like doing it (find / -type f -name 'passff.json'' on GNU). @CCheCastaldo We’ll occasionally send you account related emails. By joining our community you will have the ability to post topics, receive our newsletter, use the advanced search, subscribe to threads and access many other special features. What keysize do you want? Fortunately, the Homebrew package pinentry-mac seems to be exactly that â a GUIfied verison of pinentry.. I'm using gpg 2.2.4 on Ubuntu 18.04.4 on WSL. General information. 2017-09-27T11:37:02Z tag:gpgtools.tenderapp.com,2011-11-04:Comment/43561150 2017-09-26T23:59:21Z 2017-09-26T23:59:21Z Actually the doc seems wrong since the installer of the native host app has 2 paths for Firefox: I guess you have a second path to check, while I do believe there should be nothing there. The problem is in the interaction of PassFF with its environment: presumably gpg-agent and your pinentry program. This post describes the GnuPG pinentry process and provides a script which automatically chooses between a terminal or graphical interface based ⦠On 2014-08-14 (226), at 11:57:06, Werner Koch wrote: __outer > Hello! The default installation also configures the pinentry-mac program, which displays a password input dialog if a password is required and provides the option to save it into the Keychain. The relevant configuration instructions, (the solution), are present both on gnupg.org and towards the beginning of the gpg-agent manpage.. If youâre not getting prompted at all for a passphrase, the solution may just be to install a program to facilitate that. Your error message may be [11:13:19] show -> gpg: decryption failed: No secret key (2) You may need to create this file. Ok, I figured this out. passff only works when pass has has recently decrypted a file in the terminal. 0 = key does not expire = key expires in n days w = key expires in n weeks m = key expires in n months y = key expires in n years Key is valid for? I made sure passff.py is executable and I opened passff.json and verified the path is set to the absolute path of the host executable passff.py. I have pinentry-mac 0.9.4 and gnupg / gpg-agent 2.1.22 from Homebrew, and I don't need to start gpg-agent manually; pinentry-mac does it for me the first time I try to sign something. The most common is pinentry. Then I came across pinentry-mac . It means something keeps states of what you are doing: this is the gpg-agent. Auto-start of the gpg-agent. I just want to sign my commits on GitHub and save my GPG key in macOS keychain. (0) Key does not expire at all Is this correct? @joaomoreno This issue is present in WSL sessions as well and I'm not sure if there's a workaround for it. The information I posted before should solve your issue. Decrypt a file with pass / gpg2, so as to enter your passphrase. As a note to anyone who mind find this later: This issue is caused by the gnuOSX version of pinentry-mac, which is 1.1.0 and does not yet include some fixes around the macOS keychain that MacGPG2 includes in their version 1.1.0.2. Already on GitHub? I'm sorry to tell you the problem must not be in PassFF, or at least not directly. The bug in Xcode 9 was documented here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44962684/xcode-9-beta-2-fails-dvtpluginerrordomain-plugin-load-fails#45289055. I had the same bug when compiling graphviz-gui. to your account, Status line output: [21:35:46] show -> gpg: decryption failed: No sec... (2). However, pinentry only runs on the command line and therefore will not work with passff. I tried/confirmed: I deleted any file passff.json in the folder NativeMessagingHosts and reinstalled the latest version of the host application. By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and ... Also worth pointing out that GPG signing will work within Xcode for awhile after the previous signed commit was made (from the terminal), since no password will be necessary for awhile afterwards. If this is the case, passff works for any entry. I installed OpenVas-Libraries, then OpenVAS-Libnasl first. While trying to build gnupg2, as a dependency the port pinentry-mac fails to build on macOS 10.13 High Sierra with Xcode 9.0. Seems to be a bug in Xcode 9. The gpg-agent is the central part of the GnuPG system. port pinentry-mac fails to build on macOS 10.13 High Sierra with Xcode 9.0. I have been successfully using the gnupg21 package from MacPorts for several months. and sometimes I would get the gpg error and nothing would happen when trying to use passff. To be clear currently passff never prompts me for the passphrase to my gpg key responsible for encryption in pass. This is the only location on OS X where the host application puts files according to the passff documentation. trustlist.txt It takes care of all private (secret) keys and ⦠Enigmail is looking for a GUI authentication program. But if not, another thing to do is ⦠If pass has not been used recently then passff can see the files in pass. I have reverted to using GPG_Suite-2016.08_v2.dmg, which also ships a version of pinentry-mac-app which does not run, but their GPGKeychain runs fine and this is usable with Mac Mail. This default name may be changed on the command line (see option --options). Sometimes it would connect to pass without a gpg error and I was able to goto, fill, etc. I saw this post and tried the suggestions from 5bentz and now it does not work at all. However, when I click on them and select an action, nothing happens (there is no output to the web console either). While itâs still early days, and I am by no means a gpg expert (who is? Wait until pass requires the passphrase again and repeat step 3. Either the port should respect the user's previous no_pinentry request, or the no_pinentry variant should be removed because in its current form it does nothing, other than prevent the user from upgrading the port. I originally got passff to work but only intermittently. If I return to the terminal and run something silly to force passphrase prompt (such as echo "hello" | gpg --clearsign), enter that and return back to VSC to commit, it runs fine. You can test that with this command: change the password name and the path to your passwords, EDIT: at run the command from the standard input 1 minute from now ;), I don't have a Mac so I cannot help much more. You are currently viewing LQ as a guest. Keep up the good work. Using pinentry-mac is very handy not to have to enter in your GPG password constantly by storing your GPG ... You can verify this is working by ⦠Group Key doesn't work anymore: 28 Dec, 2020 09:50 AM: GPG Mail hidden settings not working (Build: 1569) 28 Dec, 2020 02:24 AM: qwdqw: 27 Dec, 2020 02:46 PM: GPG Tools Public Signature in Website Footer does not match the Public Signature of the downloaded file: 25 Dec, 2020 11:29 AM: Horrible message on verification of a file This repo is my quick check, if it's possible to integrate pinentry-mac into pinentry. There are two main dependencies to achieve that, gnupg contains the GPG tools to generate keys and sign things, as well as an agent to do agent things; and pinentry-mac which is the part of GPGTools that prompts for your key password and stores it on ⦠That did not work at all with the terminal pinentry-curses. When I try to commit via VSC the first time, it fails. Decrypted a file with pass / gpg2, so I enter my passphrase. Describe your environment. I suspect a problem with pin-entry. The most of the code is old and ugly, but it works. Right now, passff can see the files in pass. ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf has a pinentry-program key that is used to specify the location of the pinentry program. Maybe a console pinentry cannot work with PassFF since the console is run by PassFF/Python3. I encountered a similar issue installing MacVIM. The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: Thanks for the thorough report! So, brew install pinentry-mac. The only place on my system passff.json was installed was in the Application support folder in my home directory. I get a curses password prompt in Terminal.app or via a remote SSH session. There are some points, i want to clear, before i start to work on this: 1. So i'm thinking about a complete rewrite. > > I just released the sixth *beta* version of GnuPG *2.1*. (It should not work: error 2). Moreover, your passff can list the files whereas OP's cannot. passff should just work all the time and, I assume, prompt me for the passphrase within firefox? This means that I do not need use-standard-socket in .gpg-agent.conf or the .profile changes above. couldn't get past Libnasl as a result of missing dependencies. Thanks. I'm sorry to tell you the problem must not be in PassFF, or at least not directly. Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community. Sign in I understood your problem because PassFF would sometimes work. Hereâs the problem: pinentry is a program for authenticating to gpg-agent (the program to which GnuPG farms out passphrase entry), but it only runs at the command prompt. I do think your gpg-agent works since your passff would sometimes work. gpg-agent will find pinentry automatically. Uninstall GPGTools ¶ I downloaded the uninstaller from the GPGTools website; thatâs right, it is not included in the standard ⦠pinentry for GPG on Mac. I am having the problem that the PIN prompt via pinentry-mac doesnât work correctly anymore on macOS Catalina. Is there a specific order OpenVas should be installed? Paul - 2014-12-22 Unfortunately that did not work. You'll have to delete the "pinentry-program" line in your gpg-agent.conf file. This is not a Homebrew issue, but rather one of user configuration. Hereâs how I did it. FYI, this launch daemon and the write-env-file option are obsolete as of GnuPG 2.1. Thanks for the troubleshooting help 5btentz! Like the other platform versions, it was keyed off DISPLAY, which I think is not a good Mac solution in general since many users do not use X11. I am having a similar, if not identical issue. You are on your own , For reference, I moved the old conversation (#324) here. Now if you use passff it will prompt you for your passphrase, which you can choose to save in the keychain if you like. I know pass works just fine as I use it all the time from the command line. Also fixed the problem that the PIN prompt via pinentry-mac doesnât work correctly anymore on macOS High... 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