----- Op 30 sep 2021 om 22:29 schreef Discussion list for OpenIndiana
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> In regard to: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] GPG2 on OI, [email protected] said...:
>
>> If I try it on X11/MATE desktop,
>> then the default /usr/bin/pinentry works using the link to the
>> /usr/lib/pinentry-gtk2,
>> and it asks a passphrase and that works.
>>
>> If I alt+ctrl+F2 to start a console on vt2 (text console) using
>>
>> online 19:11:44 svc:/system/console-login:vt2
>>
>> and then try it in text mode using TERM=sun-color and modify the
>> gpg-agent.conf
>> to set:
>>
>> pinentry-program /usr/lib/pinentry-curses
>>
>> then it uses the curses pinentry but it does not seem to work on the
>> text-console sun-color for me, screen goes blank, no decent curses
>> interface ...
>
> David, can I get you to test something?
>
> Repeat the console test you tried, but instead of using TERM=sun-color,
> try
>
> TERM=vt100; export TERM
>
> and then run the test.
>
> I'm seeing much different behavior between TERM=xterm and TERM=vt100
> for pinentry, I'm wondering if you get the same results.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tim
when I change on the text login console the TERM from sun-color to vt100,
the pinentry-curses draws a rectangle as follows :
l qqqqqqqqq k
x x
x x
m qqqqqqqqq j
with characters l,k,m,j in the corners and x vertical bar and q horizontal bar
It looks a little ugly but it is visible and indeed more usable.
pinentry-curses is linked against libcurses.so from pkg:/system/library.
That is, it uses /usr/lib/libcurses.so
There is also the GNU libncurses on OpenIndiana .. That is
pkg:/library/ncurses.
I just checked a OmniOS CE community edition install the OmniOS gnupg pinentry
uses libncurses ... it draws a nicer rectangle.
The OmniOS omnios-extra repository seems to use libncurses for pinentry.
Do we know whether the GNUPG developers are testing/developing with GNU
libncurses ?
Or whether they have access to a more traditional UNIX system with older
original style,
AT&T or BSD curses ?
See history of BSD curses and AT&T curses at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curses_%28programming_library%29
Regards
David Stes
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