[pass] Pass hanging on decrypt

[Daniel Seymour]

And that issue was just the fact that the pinentry program needed to be set
in my gpg-agent.conf.

On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 9:18 AM, Daniel Seymour <dannyseeless at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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Danny Seymour
dannyseeless at gmail.com
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