[SOLVED] KWallet pinentry not showing up

mehdi.essalehi · 2023-01-19 23:50:09

I'm currently on KDE and encountered a problem with pinentry. I'm trying to use pinentry-kwallet as the default pinentry program but the password prompt doesn't show up, for example when signing commits. pinentry-qt works fine.

I tested this command

echo GETPIN | pinentry-kwallet

but it does not work and fails with this error:

OK ready to listen to your demands
ERR 14 no coprocess

This is the content of ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf

pinentry-program /usr/bin/pinentry-kwallet

I tried to search online with no luck.

Thank you in advance

Last edited by mehdi.essalehi (2023-01-20 20:02:07)

seth · 2023-01-20 09:09:23

Does

qdbus | grep wallet

indicate that kwallet is listening on the session bus?
(I've no idea what I'm talking about, but it sounds like pinentry-kwallet is meant to IPC kwallet and that fails)

mehdi.essalehi · 2023-01-20 12:16:02

This is the output of the command:

org.kde.kwalletd5

So I guess it is indeed listening to the session bus.

seth · 2023-01-20 12:58:54

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/kwal … ent-838604 ?

mehdi.essalehi · 2023-01-20 14:40:57

I already tried that solution but it does not work. I still get the same message when I try the pin command or try to make a signed git commit.

seth · 2023-01-20 14:49:26

Ftr, https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/xe … let.1.html
The thing seems to be a shim that queries kwallet first and then runs a fallback pienentry.
Try

export PINENTRY=/usr/bin/pinentry-qt
echo GETPIN | pinentry-kwallet

mehdi.essalehi · 2023-01-20 17:54:49

pinentry-qt doesn't fit my needs because the password won't be saved in kwallet. I need pinentry-kwallet and this solution only manages to make a fallback pinentry program if pinentry-kwallet fails which is not what I want.

seth · 2023-01-20 19:10:15

TFM wrote:

pinentry-kwallet replaces the regular pinentry-program stanza set in ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf
and looks up the passphrases requested in the KWallet first, falling back to pinentry only
if not found. The user is given the option to store it in the KWallet afterwards. Negative
answers to this are also stored in the KWallet to avoid asking each time.
…
pinentry-kwallet exits 1 if it is called recursively
…
PINENTRY The pinentry programme to use. Default: “pinentry”

idk whether or not "The user is given the option to store it in the KWallet afterwards." fails for you and unspecified reasons, but if you're intentionally calling pinentry-kwallet recursively by making it the PINENTRY that's certainly not going to get you an interactive pinentry (after failing to get the pin out of the wallet)
At least not according to the manual.

mehdi.essalehi · 2023-01-20 20:01:16

Okay, my bad. I misunderstood how pinentry-kwallet worked. I thought that pinentry-kwallet doesn't need another pinentry program and shows its own GUI.
Thank you for your help

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[SOLVED] KWallet pinentry not showing up

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