Package: pinentry-gtk2
Version: 0.7.2-3
Severity: normal
When using pinentry from the console program without setting the ttyname
OPTION pinentry waits forever for input it can never read because there
is no input available. I think this should not happen and pinentry should
abort with an error if it can not get the TTY for the input itself like
it does when it is directly started from the console.
The following perl program demonstrates the problem:
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#! /usr/bin/perl
use FileHandle;
use IPC::Open2;
open2(*PINOUT, *PININ, "pinentry");
print PININ "GETPIN\n";
while (<PINOUT>) {
print $_
}
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This works fine when it is run from an X terminal. In my opinion it
should not be the responsibility of the program using pinentry to find
out if pinentry can use X or must fallback to the console.
pinentry also only seems to check for the DISPLAY environment variable
of find out which input method it should use. It would be better if it
would fall back to console input if connecting to the X server fails for
some reason and a ttyname is set. That would make using pinentry much
easier as the using program can set ttyname whenever it is available and
pinentry will use the first input method that works (X if DISPLAY is set,
Console if ttyname is set, abort if both fails).
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.14
Locale: LANG=de_DE, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages pinentry-gtk2 depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.5-9 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libglib2.0-0 2.8.4-2 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.6.10-2 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libncurses5 5.5-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libpango1.0-0 1.8.2-3 Layout and rendering of internatio
pinentry-gtk2 recommends no packages.
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