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bug#8791: 23.3; EasyPG: pinentry in remote emacs session without X
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Daiki Ueno |
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bug#8791: 23.3; EasyPG: pinentry in remote emacs session without X |
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Date: |
Fri, 03 Jun 2011 13:20:15 +0900 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) |
Roland Winkler <winkler@gnu.org> writes:
> I am running emacs remotely as a child of gpg-agent, but with X
> forwarding disabled. If I am trying to visit a gpg-encrypted file,
> I simply get the error message
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> File exists, but cannot be read
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> and I get an empty buffer.
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> I would expect that with X forwarding disabled, emacs will ask for the
> passphrase in the minibuffer. (I believe I got this behavior when I had
> no pinentry program installed.)
Well I think pinentry should fallback to use curses in this case.
However it is not currently possible since there is no way to get the
tty where Emacs is running. See:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/96207
Regards,
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Daiki Ueno