Force pass to use specific GPG key

George Rawlinson george at rawlinson.net.nz
Thu Feb 16 00:55:54 CET 2017


Hi all,

It was a failing Yubikey that was causing my issues, so this matter can be
marked as solved.

Thanks to all that helped.

-George

On 16 February 2017 at 12:33, HacKan <hackan at gmail.com> wrote:

> Check gpg --card-status if you are using a card. Install scdaemon.
> Maybe this can help you: https://github.com/drduh/YubiKey-Guide
> I have a yubikey and I use it with pass among other things.
> Issue gpg --with-fingrprint -K to show full fingerprint of main key and subkeys.
> Maybe you want to use a subkey for encryption/signing.
>
> Let me know if you need more info.
> Since this is not a pass issue, you might want to contact me directly instead of writing the whole list.
>
> Cheers!
>
>
> On 02/14/2017 07:11 PM, George Rawlinson wrote:
>
> I don't know what's going on, but GPG just locks up when I try and decrypt
> anything with my keys.
>
> On 15 February 2017 at 11:04, Lucas Hoffmann <l-m-h at web.de> wrote:
>
>> Shouldn't gpg just ask for the key that is used to the encrypted data?
>> With which key id did you do `pass init` (or what is in
>> $PASSWORD_STORE_DIR/.gpg-id)?  Or check which key was used to encrypt
>> the file in question with `gpg -d` directly.
>>
>> If the password store was initialized with the wrong gpg key (id) you
>> can change it with another `pass init` (see the man page for more).
>>
>> Quoting George Rawlinson (2017-02-14 22:50:32)
>> > I've got a Yubikey 4 with some GPG keys on it, but I do not want to use
>> > this for pass. I wish to use my other keys but GPG/pass wishes for my
>> key
>> > to be inserted.
>> >
>> > How can I get around this?
>>
>
>
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