Linux: pass show not showing the secret

[Lee Ball]

Sorry to spam you here Amit- I forgot to put the list on the To: line in 
case the info is helpful to anyone else:

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 > Oh, I forgot to mention in my previous email-- here's a list of the
 > gpg-agent options:
 >
 >    https://www.gnupg.org/documentation/manuals/gnupg/Agent-Options.html
 >
 > And you can reload your gpg agent to pick up new configs with:
 >
 >    $ gpg-connect-agent reloadagent /bye
 >
 > All the best,
 > Cat Lee Ball
 >
 >
 > On 11/6/21 4:41 PM, Lee Ball wrote:
 >> Hi Amit,
 >>
 >>
 >> To get a little more debug info, you might want to try adding debug
 >> flags to gpg-agent. Usually, those live in ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf
 >>
 >> You could try something like:
 >>
 >>
 >>    $ cat ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf
 >>    debug 1024
 >>    debug-level advanced
 >>    debug-pinentry
 >>
 >>
 >> One wild guess is that maybe the pinentry prompt isn't spawning. You
 >> can tell it to use a specific pinentry program in your gpg-agent.conf
 >> too.
 >>
 >>
 >>    $ cat ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf
 >>    pinentry-program /usr/bin/pinentry-curses
 >>
 >>
 >> Make sure you have pinentry-curses installed first if you copy the
 >> above line verbatim. :)
 >>
 >>
 >> Wishing you luck!
 >> Cat Lee Ball

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All the best,
Cat Lee Ball


On 11/6/21 4:37 PM, Amit Saha wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 7, 2021 at 10:13 AM Amit Saha <amitsaha.in at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all, a fairly new user of pass. I am using a git store for my
>> passwords. I started using MacOS and have been using it on a single
>> computer.
>>
>> Now, I have set pass up on a second system (Linux), and using the
>> 1.7.3 version on Ubuntu, when I do "pass show" one of the existing
>> passwords, the Gpg dialog pops up, I put in the password, then there
>> is no output. However, I can "pass insert" a new password on the same
>> system, and then "pass show" shows the secret.
>>
>> I can go back to the other computer, and I can see the secret I
>> created on the Linux system.
>>
>> I have used my existing gpg keys to encrypt and decrypt a file successfully.
>>
>>
>> Not sure how to  best debug. Any suggestions would be helpful.
> 
> I tried using --clip:
> 
> $ pass show --clip <pass word name>
> There is no password to put on the clipboard at line 1.
> 
> So, I suppose the decryption process is not working?
> 
> 
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Amit.
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