[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#841909: Bug#841909: /usr/bin/gpg: Configuration error over ssh

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

Hi Craig--

On Tue 2016-10-25 07:14:35 -0400, Craig Small <csmall at debian.org> wrote:
> Looks like you've hit the nail on the head there.
>
> *$ *dpkg -l 'pinentry*'
> Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
> | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
> |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
> ||/ Name           Version      Architecture Description
> +++-==============-============-============-=================================
> un  pinentry       <none>       <none>       (no description available)
> un  pinentry-curse <none>       <none>       (no description available)
> un  pinentry-doc   <none>       <none>       (no description available)
> ii  pinentry-gnome 0.9.7-6      amd64        GNOME 3 PIN or pass-phrase entry
> ii  pinentry-gtk2  0.9.7-6      amd64        GTK+-2-based PIN or pass-phrase e
> un  pinentry-x11   <none>       <none>       (no description available)
> *csmall**@**elmo**: **~**$ *readlink -f $(which pinentry)
> /usr/bin/pinentry-gnome3
>
>
> I also rebuilt the pinentry-gnome3 with the patch. What happens now is I
> get the ncurses pinentry screen appearing and the file is successfully
> signed. So yes, for me at least your patch solves my problem. Thanks for
> the quick answer!

Thanks for your followup!  i don't know enough about your machine
("elmo") to understand the use case here -- given the installed pinentry
programs, is the computer you're ssh'ing into one that people use from a
graphical environment?

If not, maybe the easiest fix for you is to install pinentry-curses and
to purge pinentry-gtk2 and pinentry-gnome3.

If you personally also sometimes log into "elmo" graphically (with your
"csmall" account), that would also be useful information to know.  In
that case, i think applying the patch to pinentry-gnome3 is the best
solution.  that way you'd get the graphical pinentry when you have a
graphical session running, and you'd get the curses pinentry when the
session you're connected to is non-graphical.

does this make sense?

     --dkg
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