Hi, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > > In newest version, pinentry is displaying password when typing. (It is > > displaying the last letter but a observer can easily read the password.) > > i'm not seeing this behavior at all. I'm using pinentry-gtk2 0.9.6-2, > and libgtk2.0-0 2.24.28-1, just like you are. The password entry field > i see is just dots, no characters.
JFTR: I can't reproduce it either, running pinentry-gtk-2 on Sid (same versions as above) amd64 Xen VM via SSH X forwarding to a Jessie amd64 box. > To start with, can you reproduce it from the command line, by invoking > "pinentry-gtk-2" directly, and then after it says "OK Pleased to meet > you", type "GETPIN" and hit enter. Thanks for that howto! Tried to figure that out myself, but didn't find the proper documentation. (Didn't look for long either, though.) Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5 `- | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE