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Date:      Sat, 17 Jan 2009 23:23:13 -0500
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Should Gnome2 meta port include security/pinentry-gtk2?
Message-ID:  <1232252593.51752.11.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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On Sat, 2009-01-17 at 23:20 -0500, Robert Noland wrote:
> 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 wou=
ldn'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 thi=
s 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 w=
here
> > > > > > pinentry is executed.  In fact, seahorse is working just fine f=
or me
> > > > > > without pinentry.  Can you provide a sequence I can test which =
will
> > > > > > illustrate the problem caused by lacking pinentry-gtk2?
> > > > >=20
> > > > > seahorse-agent is (now?) part of seahorse-plugins.  This is neede=
d
> > > > > during session startup to provide services for evolution, etc...
> > > >=20
> > > > Right, but everything is working just fine without pinentry.  I jus=
t
> > > > 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.
>=20
> 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.

That may be.  I do have gpg-agent installed.  But so should everyone as
gnupg 2.0 is part of the GNOME Desktop.

Joe

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