[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#835394: Info received ( Bug#835394: gnupg-agent: gpg agent refusing ssh agent work)

Raphaël raphael.droz at gmail.com
Sun Jun 25 00:56:32 UTC 2017


Running the agent --debug 4096 --debug-level guru --daemon --min-passphrase-len 0

$ ssh my-vm

gpg-agent[29336]: ssh handler 0x------------ for fd 8 started
gpg-agent[29336]: ssh request handler for request_identities (11) started
gpg-agent[29336]: ssh request handler for request_identities (11) ready
gpg-agent[29336]: ssh request handler for sign_request (13) started
gpg-agent[29336]: DBG: agent_get_cache '4B9XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXA' (mode 4) ...
gpg-agent[29336]: DBG: ... miss
gpg-agent[29336]: starting a new PIN Entry
gpg-agent[29336]: DBG: connection to PIN entry established
** Message: Remote error from secret service: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.secrets was not provided by any .service files
Failed to lookup password for key s/4B9XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXA with secret service: The name org.freedesktop.secrets was not provided by any .service files
#### here ssh key PINentry popup => just enter (no passphrase) ####
gpg-agent[29336]: DBG: error calling pinentry: No passphrase given <GPG Agent>
gpg-agent[29336]: failed to unprotect the secret key: No passphrase given
gpg-agent[29336]: failed to read the secret key


I guess there may be something "special" against passphrase-less ssh keys, but
couldn't find any documentation/hints about this.



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