<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Paul Cartwright <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ale@pcartwright.com">ale@pcartwright.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On 12/02/2010 04:06 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:<br>
</div><div class="im">> Am I going blind? gpg2 --gen-key never asks for a passphrase for the new<br>
> key generation and yet it fails to create a key pair grousing about no<br>
> password AND there is no flag to append a password without being it<br>
> batch mode which is not allowed in the key-gen phase.<br>
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</div> Suggests: gpg-agent (gpg2 --gen-key requires /usr/bin/gpg-agent)<br>
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got gpg-agent?<br></blockquote><div><br>yep. but gpg-agent is for the keyring. which is empty since I HAVE NO KEYS!!!!<br><br>tried also gpg --gen-key with same results as /usr/bin/gpg is a link to gpg2<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div class="im">Paul Cartwright<br>
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