[pass] Pass hanging on decrypt

[Daniel Seymour]

And the issue is back.  This time changing /usr/bin/pass doesn't do
anything either way.

On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 8:58 AM, Daniel Seymour <dannyseeless at gmail.com>
wrote:

> SO I just realized that I actually didn't include the whole mailing list
> in my problem as I should have.  James Cameron was very helpful in helping
> me troubleshoot.  The problem with my system happened to be that the gpg
> binary that pass was attempting to use was GPG 1.  I edited the pass bash
> script to point to gpg2 and everything started working.
>
> Can a check be implemented to check to make sure that the gpg version pass
> uses is GPG2 and not GPG?
>
> On Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 9:59 PM, Mike Charlton <mikekchar at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> It's a long shot, but are you sure you have the private key on your
>> system?  Some GPG tutorials encourage people to move their private keys off
>> of their computer so that it can't be compromised.  But if you do that with
>> your encryption key, then you can't decrypt anything :-)
>>
>> Try GPG -K to list the private keys on your system.
>>
>> On 16 November 2015 at 08:36, Daniel Seymour <dannyseeless at gmail.com>
>> 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)
>>>
>>> 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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>>
>
>
> --
> Danny Seymour
> dannyseeless at gmail.com
>



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Danny Seymour
dannyseeless at gmail.com
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