[kdepim-users] X509 certificate passphrase won't work in kleopatra and kmail

Darknight darknight7 at tiscali.it
Fri Apr 16 09:37:53 BST 2010


2010-04-13 16:39:33 Darknight
> I've been assigned an X509 certificate, I exported it from firefox in p12
> format and was able to install it in kleopatra using a workaround as
> detailed here:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=548528
> unsetting $GPG_AGENT_INFO and launching kleopatra from the un-set shell.
> 
> Now I face another issue.
> Kleopatra asks me to use a passphrase to protect my key but no matter if I
> set it to "abc", a complex passphrase or an empty string when I try to
> access the key later, via kmail to sign or via kleopatra to change the
> passphrase, the message I get is "bad passphrase".
> I'm positive that I've entered the correct passphrase. I have tried to
> launch kleopatra from an un-set shell and in the regular way. I have tried
> with pinentry-qt4 and pinentry-gtk-2 just in case.
> 
> Help is very appreciated, unfortunately this certificate is needed at work
> :/

I have found a bug about this issue but there's no advice from the devs: 
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=186001
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