Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2009 23:20:54 -0500 From: Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Should Gnome2 meta port include security/pinentry-gtk2? Message-ID: <1232252455.22215.8.camel@ferret.2hip.net> In-Reply-To: <1232252222.51752.9.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> References: <86vdsghdum.fsf@pluton.xbsd.name> <1232157465.1547.20.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <864ozyskxn.fsf@pluton.xbsd.name> <1232246393.51752.6.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <1232250663.22215.4.camel@ferret.2hip.net> <1232251815.51752.8.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <1232252053.22215.6.camel@ferret.2hip.net> <1232252222.51752.9.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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--=-7z/UEx+XE7OqeXw5Ner/ Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 2009-01-17 at 23:17 -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > On Sat, 2009-01-17 at 23:14 -0500, Robert Noland wrote: > > On Sat, 2009-01-17 at 23:10 -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > > On Sat, 2009-01-17 at 22:51 -0500, Robert Noland wrote: > > > > On Sat, 2009-01-17 at 21:39 -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > > > > On Sat, 2009-01-17 at 10:52 +0800, Denise H. G. wrote: > > > > > > Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> writes: > > > > > >=20 > > > > > > > On Thu, 2009-01-15 at 21:56 +0800, Denise H. G. wrote: > > > > > > >> It seems that without security/pinentry-gtk2, seahorse would= n't get full > > > > > > >> functions, such as adding new names to an existing key. > > > >=20 > > > > Is seahorse-plugins installed? > > > >=20 > > > > > > > Is this documented anywhere? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Joe > > > > > > > > > > > > >=20 > > > > > > I haven't found it on seahorse's official site. But I got this = on > > > > > > redhat's bug archives and gentoo's: > > > > > >=20 > > > > > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3D474419 > > > > > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D159505 > > > > >=20 > > > > > Interesting because I don't see anywhere in the seahorse code whe= re > > > > > pinentry is executed. In fact, seahorse is working just fine for= me > > > > > without pinentry. Can you provide a sequence I can test which wi= ll > > > > > illustrate the problem caused by lacking pinentry-gtk2? > > > >=20 > > > > seahorse-agent is (now?) part of seahorse-plugins. This is needed > > > > during session startup to provide services for evolution, etc... > > >=20 > > > Right, but everything is working just fine without pinentry. I just > > > have seahorse and seahorse-plugins installed. > >=20 > > Yes, i think that is all that is needed. Unless I've missed it > > somewhere, there isn't a dependency on seahorse-plugins though. >=20 > No. The plug-ins are extra. They should probably be added to the > fifth-toe or power-tools. Technically, Evo will work just fine with > seahorse, but it will re-prompt you for your key password on every > launch. Hrm, not without an agent I don't think.... At least it wasn't for me earlier today before I installed seahorse-plugins... I think it needs either gpg-agent or seahorse-agent to work properly. robert. > Joe >=20 --=20 Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org> FreeBSD --=-7z/UEx+XE7OqeXw5Ner/ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.10 (FreeBSD) iEYEABECAAYFAklyriYACgkQM4TrQ4qfROMvTACeI0xjPTj43Z3vwVdn3j1ai0jD czoAoIb+N6wU+3yvv5qO34KbblQLCA1+ =12at -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-7z/UEx+XE7OqeXw5Ner/--
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