[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#883005: Bug#883005: gpg2 too annoying about lack of a passphrase

[Ian Jackson]

Daniel Kahn Gillmor writes ("Re: [pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#883005: gpg2 too annoying about lack of a passphrase"):
> On Tue 2017-11-28 17:20:56 +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > Package: gnupg2
> > Version: 2.0.26-6+deb8u1
..
> I'm not seeing this particular warning on the version of GnuPG that we
> have in debian stable.  Can you confirm that you don't have any sort of
> custom local configuration, or a gpg-check-pattern patternfile set up on
> your machine?

I don't.  I was trying to generate a subkey for a key on a Yubikey
token.  (With the token removed, so that I could check that it would
fail.)

> Using a modern GnuPG (e.g. the one in debian stable), have you tried:
>     gpg --passphrase '' --pinentry-mode=loopback --quick-add-key $FINGERPRINT
> That should provide you with a prompt-free workaround for adding a
> subkey with no passphrase.

Thanks for the tip.

Ian.

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