Pass (password manager) not asking for PIN in Xenialpup 32

[Mr.Spenalzo]

I'm trying to set up Pass as a password manager in xenialpup 32 frugal. I installed Pass 1.6.5 and GnuPG 2.1.11 (gpg2) from PPM. When generating a gpg key I get prompted for name, email and comment but no prompt for pin. This is what returns:

gpg: agent_genkey failed: No pinentry
Key generation failed: No pinentry

I've checked dependencies and all installed per PPM.
Any help or suggestions much appreciated. Thank you.

[666philb]

hi Mr.Spenalzo

it probably needs pinentry-curses from the PPM

[Mr.Spenalzo]

Thanks 666philb.

Pinentry-curses was present, either installed by PPM with Pass or perhaps w/ gpg2. (I don't remember if I had to install gpg2 separately or if PPM included it w/ Pass). So that wasn't it. However I found a discussion re getting gpg to work with sylpheed that said a symlink was needed:

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Success! It works. A symlink was needed:
Code:
ln -s /usr/bin/pinentry-gtk-2 /usr/bin/pinentry

The symlink:
Code:
ln -s /usr/bin/gpg2 /usr/bin/gpg
seems to be also needed.
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That didn't work but after noodling with it I found this worked:
<ln -s /usr/bin/pinentry-curses /usr/bin/pinentry

I don't understand why, but it did. I had already added the second symlink; I don't know if that is necessary.

Link to discussion if you're interested; see top 5 posts page 61:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... aa2e0449cb

Thanks again for your help.