[pass] Pass hanging on decrypt
James Cameron
quozl at laptop.org
Mon Nov 16 00:48:48 CET 2015
On Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 03:36:41PM -0800, Daniel Seymour wrote:
> First off, thanks for the AMAZING piece of software. I didn't really
> like the idea of LastPass being linked to my browser and KeePass
> felt clunky for me. Pass has filled the password manager void for
> me.
>
> Not to explain my issue, I have been having some rather odd
> issues. I am able to initialize a password store with my GPG key and
> pass is able to create the password store, generate new passwords
> and store them, but when I attempt to use any of the pass functions
> that decrypt a gpg file, pass seems to hang for about a minute
> before throwing an error: "gpg: decryption failed: No secret key"
>
> I have deleted and created multiple password stores with every
> possible gpg key ID on my system and still nothing works. Anyone
> have an idea what I am doing wrong?
>
> Example of what I have done:
>
> pass init XXXXXXXX (using both the pub and sub key IDs)
> pass generate test.com 20
> pass show test.com
>
> (and this is where the decryption error is thrown. It doesn't even
> prompt for a password)
What happens if you type this;
gpg --decrypt < .password-store/test.com.gpg
(thus excluding pass from the problem)
>
> Just to clarify, I have made sure to completely delete the password store
> directory before attempting to create a new one (rm -r ~/.password-store)
>
> I am on a fully updated Fedora 23 Workstation.
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James Cameron
http://quozl.linux.org.au/
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