From b3794e8c22120f2d82407cebd70cda639e49ee42 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Kahn Gillmor Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2013 06:55:06 +2000 Subject: [PATCH] Re: [PATCH 0/2] Prompting for the GPG password within Emacs --- 69/5bd6dbeef9b82ded66898ac7405586274761a5 | 119 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 119 insertions(+) create mode 100644 69/5bd6dbeef9b82ded66898ac7405586274761a5 diff --git a/69/5bd6dbeef9b82ded66898ac7405586274761a5 b/69/5bd6dbeef9b82ded66898ac7405586274761a5 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..f8c400449 --- /dev/null +++ b/69/5bd6dbeef9b82ded66898ac7405586274761a5 @@ -0,0 +1,119 @@ +Return-Path: +X-Original-To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +Delivered-To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) + by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEF8F431FAF + for ; Mon, 8 Jul 2013 03:55:36 -0700 (PDT) +X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at olra.theworths.org +X-Spam-Flag: NO +X-Spam-Score: 0 +X-Spam-Level: +X-Spam-Status: No, score=0 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[none] + autolearn=disabled +Received: from olra.theworths.org ([127.0.0.1]) + by localhost (olra.theworths.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) + with ESMTP id HyNCkR9Y0MfL for ; + Mon, 8 Jul 2013 03:55:29 -0700 (PDT) +Received: from che.mayfirst.org (che.mayfirst.org [209.234.253.108]) + by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DED6431FAE + for ; Mon, 8 Jul 2013 03:55:29 -0700 (PDT) +Received: from [192.168.13.179] (lair.fifthhorseman.net [108.58.6.98]) + by che.mayfirst.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 06703F980; + Mon, 8 Jul 2013 06:55:08 -0400 (EDT) +Message-ID: <51DA9A8A.5070405@fifthhorseman.net> +Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2013 06:55:06 -0400 +From: Daniel Kahn Gillmor +User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; + rv:17.0) Gecko/20130630 Icedove/17.0.7 +MIME-Version: 1.0 +To: craven@gmx.net +Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Prompting for the GPG password within Emacs +References: <1373195672-9338-1-git-send-email-neil@linux.intel.com> + <51D9F4E6.1030504@fifthhorseman.net> <87wqp135yn.fsf@nexoid.at> +In-Reply-To: <87wqp135yn.fsf@nexoid.at> +X-Enigmail-Version: 1.5.1 +Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; + protocol="application/pgp-signature"; + boundary="----enig2PGGJTJOBVXGHXQGMFHTA" +Cc: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +X-BeenThere: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 +Precedence: list +List-Id: "Use and development of the notmuch mail system." + +List-Unsubscribe: , + +List-Archive: +List-Post: +List-Help: +List-Subscribe: , + +X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2013 10:55:36 -0000 + +This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) +------enig2PGGJTJOBVXGHXQGMFHTA +Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 +Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable + +On 07/08/2013 02:45 AM, craven@gmx.net wrote: +> This is what I have tried too :) My setup is as follows: +> I run emacs in non-window mode (-nw) on a server machine under tmux (a +> terminal multiplexer, like screen). I connect to this via SSH from +> different machines (maybe even across multiple SSH logins). + +cool, this makes sense to me. + +on the remote server, do you have the pinentry-curses and gnupg-agent +packages installed (these are the packages' names on debian and +debian-derived systems -- they might be named something else on your +distro). + +do you have use-agent (on its own line) in ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf on the serve= +r? + +> I have the secret keys on the local machine and the remote machine. +> gpg-agent runs fine on the remote machine, however I have found no way +> to make it consistently prompt for the password on the right SSH +> connection (I don't believe there even is a way to achieve this, as +> there may be multiple, or I may leave several connections open and move= + +> between machines). The only thing that mostly works is using the remote= + +> gpg-agent to prompt on the terminal, which messes up the display +> temporarily. + +The route i suggest above (with pinentry-curses might be what you're +describing here. when you say "messes up the display temporarily" can +you be more specific about what it does to the display? this may be a +bug in pinentry-curses that could be fixed. + + --dkg + + +------enig2PGGJTJOBVXGHXQGMFHTA +Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" +Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature +Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" + +-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- +Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) +Comment: Using GnuPG with Icedove - http://www.enigmail.net/ + +iQJ8BAEBCgBmBQJR2pqKXxSAAAAAAC4AKGlzc3Vlci1mcHJAbm90YXRpb25zLm9w +ZW5wZ3AuZmlmdGhob3JzZW1hbi5uZXRFQjk2OTEyODdBN0FEREUzNzU3RDkxMUVB +NTI0MDFCMTFCRkRGQTVDAAoJEKUkAbEb/fpcrN4QAMBtlCuCAFjrnce+rGYZfJBR +Dx6q18lZm3bcpSrAHj9IB8k1Qs+XqKDNDN/47QZ0ehKY8fOcnX17lVasZHDjGbhn +qP7ZPSG/ce0Ui91qTXYon+callh3NlCXIqKeAjOwPNPu1qVU6NS/eznkp9hDrjtu +koJiaZ6eADeaGbxNxkZ+RB/Wr1nQje7XzusWJ4WYa7wwvW6EqnaC4r+X3IZ3CL/s +6QcsQ53L7N67JYz9aPURNlwLcO4LQj86mWAMNlu07F4pLaCIydipXoXZZTVL2Jve +hWX+q0dnmzLZM+RztP46iALOzLP0aBPYAi6IhueohZB/IjhtCyaku+xSTtMF0xAR +xkQpOOr9UKfcWsfNjE+76JmMZz36ayPRHXh8HnpzWJXDrq20MGElIXL3dSWUP2Zm +x788G7s2ARqo/AnTOoFofTgyYY5b5JMgMyPLt90irSZBvpxAq342o+vNy7I6exLK +PgCQWKI+oRmqXlrDuiJ8w5KpYIPcgw3DELbBAbKjrJs8BhYotG3wtHT8hnePsySg +6vbgZlFR1MIi3wYn/e4D3yfInnKtRk4W18ABhNP0ShGpyVfJUF0IN/3MX+9ZP7ud +Z1SYW/GoS7MaG7YDXuS6N5f5GueURngg8yEMxvDuQo9CdfLp96k00CL5SVrBBoia +irllHh4TwVq5nDopSQCY +=9vt6 +-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- + +------enig2PGGJTJOBVXGHXQGMFHTA-- -- 2.26.2