keybase / keybase/client

login – incompatible with loopback-pinentry

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Description

I use pinentry-mode loopback in my gnupg.conf, so that I'd get the simple "Enter passphrase:" prompt instead of a popup window, and this seems to be incompatible with keybase:

Choose a key: 1
(a few seconds pass)
▶ ERROR GPG error: exit status 2

Maybe --pinentry-mode default should be added, or the loopback mode documented as not supported?

Arch Linux aur/keybase-release 4428.3e4cfb2-1

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Start by reproducing the login failure with pinentry-mode loopback enabled in gnupg.conf and compare it with the default pinentry mode. Trace the login path that reports “GPG error: exit status 2”; the issue is complete when loopback mode either works or its unsupported status is documented.

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Tech stack
go
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security
Issue type
Bug
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4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
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