[ale] gpg2 --gen-key requires password which it won't take or use

[Jim Kinney]

On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Paul Cartwright <ale at pcartwright.com> wrote:

> On 12/02/2010 04:06 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> > Am I going blind? gpg2 --gen-key never asks for a passphrase for the new
> > key generation and yet it fails to create a key pair grousing about no
> > password AND there is no flag to append a password without being it
> > batch mode which is not allowed in the key-gen phase.
>
>  Suggests: gpg-agent (gpg2 --gen-key requires /usr/bin/gpg-agent)
>
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> got gpg-agent?
>

yep. but gpg-agent is for the keyring. which is empty since I HAVE NO
KEYS!!!!

tried also gpg --gen-key with same results as /usr/bin/gpg is a link to gpg2


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