Hi I'm having this problem with KGpg in ubuntu 14, thunderbird/enigmail, and the
pgp app in Tails.
The problem is, I need to be able to paste my password into the field, I'm using
a pw generator, and pw's look like this: g*-]Ar@;7M%FZ]D!7wt3{
Not something very efficient to type in, if you get my drift. Neither Ctrl+P nor
right-click paste work.
Previosly, I've use GnuPG the mac version, and that was a breeze to use.
There is no version 2.0.22 of pinentry (the most recent version is 0.9.7). Can
you please figure out what version of pinentry you are using and which pinentry
program (there are five: pinentry-gnome3, pinentry-gtk-2, pinentry-qt,
pinentry-curses and pinentry-tty). Thanks!
Note: recent versions of pinentry-gtk-2 are using native widgets. If you are
using that program and not the latest version of pinentry, then please try that
first.
I'm not using pinetry, it is part of the pgp software. just trying to
get to the bottom of this. I am a user, not a programmer. Pinetry just
makes the popup that's asking for the password. I attached a screenshot
of it.
On 02/14/2016 07:10 AM, Neal Walfield via BTS wrote:
Neal Walfield <neal@walfield.org> added the comment:
Note: recent versions of pinentry-gtk-2 are using native widgets. If you are
using that program and not the latest version of pinentry, then please try that
first.
GnuPG's BTS <gnupg@bugs.g10code.com>
<T2249>
see attached, this is a part of gpg, enter password, I need to be able
to paste into that field. Nobody seems to know how to fix this!
On 02/14/2016 07:10 AM, Neal Walfield via BTS wrote:
Neal Walfield <neal@walfield.org> added the comment:
Note: recent versions of pinentry-gtk-2 are using native widgets. If you are
using that program and not the latest version of pinentry, then please try that
first.
GnuPG's BTS <gnupg@bugs.g10code.com>
<T2249>
Yes you are using pinentry, and we need to know what kind of pinentry (there are
several flavors) and which version you are using in order to help you.
Please do 'pinentry --version' and report the output.
To see whether this pinentry is the one you are using, or to play around with it
and the variants, you can do:
echo -e "SETDESC Does this look like your pinentry window?\nGETPIN" | pinentry
You can try replacing pinentry with pinentry-qt for example.
I think this can be resolved. Yes older versions did not allow pasting but
recent versions do allow this. So we've fixed the bug in recent versions ->
resolved. No?
The reporter says he is using ubuntu 14 (i assume 14.4) where the default
pinentry is pinentry-gtk2 0.8.3
