{"id":1019,"date":"2011-03-17T18:00:31","date_gmt":"2011-03-17T22:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.braindeadprojects.com\/blog\/?p=1019"},"modified":"2011-03-25T17:27:17","modified_gmt":"2011-03-25T21:27:17","slug":"blast-you-pinentry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.braindeadprojects.com\/blog\/what\/blast-you-pinentry\/","title":{"rendered":"Blast you, PinEntry!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following a recent update to my Gentoo<\/a> installation at work, I found myself pestered by PinEntry<\/a> acting as my new SSH Authentication Agent<\/a>. Formerly, I used the normal ssh-agent, as it’s console only and doesn’t steal focus on the terminal window I’m currently working in.<\/p>\n

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Popups Must Die<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A quick look at the process-list shows why:<\/p>\n

gillespiem@kovacs2 ~ $ ps axu | grep gpg-agent
\n30847 ?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ss\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 0:00 gpg-agent –daemon –enable-ssh-support –write-env-file \/home\/gillespiem\/.cache\/gpg-agent-info<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The GPG-Agent is being run with the –enable-ssh-support <\/em><\/strong>flag. Here’s how you can turn it off if you’re using XFCE4<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The script \/etc\/xdg\/xfce4\/xinitrc handles chosing the correct authentication agent at line 129:<\/p>\n

129 # launch gpg-agent or ssh-agent if enabled.
\n130 ssh_agent_enabled=`xfconf-query -c xfce4-session -p \/startup\/ssh-agent\/enabled 2> \/dev\/null`<\/strong>
\n131 if test “$ssh_agent_enabled” != “false”; then
\n132\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 # if the user has pam_ssh installed, it will start ssh-agent for us, but
\n133\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 # of course won’t start gpg-agent.\u00a0 so, if ssh-agent is already running,
\n134\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 # but we want gpg-agent (and that’s not running yet) start gpg-agent
\n135\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 # without ssh support
\n136
\n137\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ssh_agent_type=`xfconf-query -c xfce4-session -p \/startup\/ssh-agent\/type 2> \/dev\/null`<\/strong>
\n138\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 if test -z “$ssh_agent_type”; then
\n139\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 if which gpg-agent >\/dev\/null 2>&1; then
\n140\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ssh_agent_type=gpg-agent
\n141\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 else
\n142\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ssh_agent_type=ssh-agent
\n143\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 fi
\n144\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 fi<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

To pass the first test (line 130), set ssh-agent to be enabled by running this (it only needs to be run once):<\/p>\n

xfconf-query -n -t bool -c xfce4-session\u00a0 -p \/startup\/ssh-agent\/enabled -s true
\n<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

To pass the second test (line 137), set \/startup\/ssh-agent\/type to … well, pretty much anything will do, as it only tests that it’s a non-zero length string – I’m setting it to “ssh-agent”:<\/p>\n

xfconf-query -n -t string -c xfce4-session\u00a0 -p \/startup\/ssh-agent\/type -s ssh-agent<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

If you’re currently in XFCE4, kill gpg-agent and restart XFCE. You’ll find when you return, ssh-agent will act as your SSH Authentication Agent, and gpg-agent will handle GPG specific transactions.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Following a recent update to my Gentoo installation at work, I found myself pestered by PinEntry acting as my new SSH Authentication Agent. Formerly, I used the normal ssh-agent, as it’s console only and doesn’t steal focus on the terminal window I’m currently working in.   A quick look at the process-list shows why: gillespiem@kovacs2 … Continue reading Blast you, PinEntry!!!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.braindeadprojects.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.braindeadprojects.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.braindeadprojects.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.braindeadprojects.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.braindeadprojects.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1019"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/www.braindeadprojects.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1054,"href":"http:\/\/www.braindeadprojects.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019\/revisions\/1054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.braindeadprojects.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.braindeadprojects.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.braindeadprojects.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}