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Date:      Mon, 19 Jan 2009 12:30:17 +0800
From:      darcsis@gmail.com (Denise H. G.)
To:        Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
Cc:        freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Should Gnome2 meta port include security/pinentry-gtk2?
Message-ID:  <86ljt7hq92.fsf@pluton.xbsd.name>
In-Reply-To: <1232246393.51752.6.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> (Joe Marcus Clarke's message of "Sat\, 17 Jan 2009 21\:39\:53 -0500")
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Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> writes:

> On Sat, 2009-01-17 at 10:52 +0800, Denise H. G. wrote:
>> Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> writes:
>> 
>> > On Thu, 2009-01-15 at 21:56 +0800, Denise H. G. wrote:
>> >> It seems that without security/pinentry-gtk2, seahorse wouldn't get full
>> >> functions, such as adding new names to an existing key.
>> >
>> > Is this documented anywhere?
>> >
>> > Joe
>> >
>> 
>> I haven't found it on seahorse's official site. But I got this on
>> redhat's bug archives and gentoo's:
>> 
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=474419
>> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159505
>
> Interesting because I don't see anywhere in the seahorse code where
> pinentry is executed.  In fact, seahorse is working just fine for me
> without pinentry.  Can you provide a sequence I can test which will
> illustrate the problem caused by lacking pinentry-gtk2?
>
> Joe

Just now I deinstalled pinentry-gtk2, and everything is OK within
seahorse... It is very weird. I don't test with other apps, just perform
some actions within seahorse like adding/deleting names from an existing
key. It seems that this possible issue with seahorse just emerges in a
fresh new install of Gnome?

Thanks.

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