[Kmymoney-devel] Re: Decryption not requesting passphrase

[John Le Page]

Unfortunately not.  I will re-install gpg etc and see if this solves the
problem. Thank you for trying!


On 05/04/2011 10:44, Thomas Baumgart wrote:
> Hi,
>
> on Tuesday 05 April 2011 10:09:54 John Le Page wrote:
>
>> Hello
>>
>> Your hunch was right. Thank you for your help.
>>
>>  'gpg -d myfile.kmy' does indeed send the file to the display unencrypted
>> without requesting the p/w. 'cat myfile.kmy' shows the ascii armoured
>> file, so the encryption is there. Extracting possibly relevant files from
>> my list of installed files, this is what I found and includes a reference
>> to an agent
>>
>> gpgsm						install
>> gpgv						install
>> libgpg-error0					install
>> libgpgme++2					install
>> libgpgme11					install
>> libqgpgme1					install
>> gnupg						install
>> gnupg-agent					install
>> gnupg-curl					install
>> gnupg2						install
>> python-gnupginterface				install
>> seahorse                                        install
>> seahorse-plugins                                install
>>
>> Your further suggestions on where to look within the above or elsewhere
>> would be appreciated.
> With a running gpg-agent and the passphrase entered once, I can force the 
> passphrase dialog with the following command:
>
>   GPG_AGENT_INFO= gpg -d myfile.kmy
>
> Does it ask for a passphrase now? 
>
> This is more a GPG question and we're somewhat the wrong community here. 
> Unless there is a GPG expert lurking here on the list :)
>
>
>
>> On 04/04/2011 21:26, Thomas Baumgart wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> on Monday 04 April 2011 18:16:31 John Le Page wrote:
>>>> A great program which I started using about six months ago after Money
>>>> 2001 gave me very weird reports with incorrect totals!
>>>>
>>>> As I was familiar with PGP, I soon went to using the encryption option,
>>>> which has been working fine until today.
>>>>
>>>> On startup this morning I found it did not want to open my file and that
>>>> my Seahorse 2.32  was empty.  I had key backups which I restored into
>>>> Seahorse and then the encrypted file opened ok but without first
>>>> requesting my passphrase.   The problem is now that while the KMyMoney
>>>> file is being stored with the right ascii armoured format under
>>>>
>>>> -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----
>>>> Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux)    etc
>>>>
>>>> but KMyMoney no longer asks me for the passphrase before opening the
>>>> file - it always just opens as soon as requested.
>>> KMyMoney uses GPG for the encryption. It does not store the passphrase at
>>> all, so I have no idea why that is. Do you have a gpg-agent running?
>>>
>>>> I have tried switching off the encryption, saving the file again,
>>>> closing & opening the file and re-saving it encrypted but still the
>>>> file next reopens without the passphrase being requested!
>>> What happens if you run 'gpg -d yourfile.kmy' ?  Does it decrypt to the
>>> console w/o entereing a passphrase?
>>>
>>>> Any suggestions?  My OS is Ubuntu 10.10  and KMyMoney 4.5.3.1 from the
>>>> Clay Weber package.
>>> I don't expect KMyMoney being part of the problem. Are you sure you open
>>> the right file? Just to be sure.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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