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23 From: Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>
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24 To: Peter Feigl <craven@gmx.net>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
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25 Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Prompting for the GPG password within Emacs
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54 On Wed, Jul 10 2013, Peter Feigl <craven@gmx.net> wrote:
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56 > Just in case anyone is interested, I wrote a simple pinentry-emacs
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57 > script, that uses emacsclient to ask inside emacs for the password.
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59 > Probably not secure, but I'm the only one accessing this host.
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61 > https://github.com/ecraven/pinentry-emacs
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63 > Finally things seem to work reliably :)
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65 Hoo, using emacsclient is a pretty novel idea to work around the
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68 The TERM=dumb is not the only problem with pinentry-curses:
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69 /dev/tty is set up by emacs and it doesn't passthrough input
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70 to the pinentry program. The orignal tty (like /dev/pts/2) emacs
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71 is running is available in TTY environment variable but emacs would
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72 compete with the input...
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74 ... these are my recollections of the problems -- In one
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75 Scientific Linux 6 system I am using has gpg2 installed -- running
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76 `emacs foo.org.gpg` fails miserably due to these problems. I'll wait
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77 until gpg2 comes into more widespread use and align to the methods
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78 that prevail there...
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