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| author | Dirk Olmes <dirk@xanthippe.ping.de> |
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| date | Tue, 09 Dec 2014 12:19:59 +0100 |
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| 1 Title: enigmail vs. pinentry | |
| 2 Date: 2014-12-09 | |
| 3 Lang: en | |
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| 5 I recently got a new Laptop and installed it with [Gentoo](http://www.gentoo.org) 64 bit. Along the process I had a hard time getting [Thunderbird](https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/), the [enigmail](https://enigmail.net/home/index.php) plugin and [gnupg](https://www.gnupg.org/) to play together nicely. | |
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| 7 I had everything set up correctly (or so I thought) and the proper keys in place. But kept getting strange error messages from enigmail about missing passwords. | |
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| 9 After hours of pointless poking around I found the culprit: gpg is trying to request passphrases via `/usr/bin/pinentry` but I did not even have a pinentry package installed. | |
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| 11 So as a hint for anyone who may stuble over the same problem as I did: | |
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| 13 emerge app-crypt/pinentry | |
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| 15 and dont' forget to enable one of the GUI keywords e.g. `gtk` or `qt`. To make sure that the pinentry link points to the correct binary run | |
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| 17 eselect pinentry list | |
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| 19 and select the correct variant. | |
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| 21 Enjoy sending gpg secured mails! |