Pinentry does not appear/Copied passwords do not end up in clipboard about rofi-pass HOT 25 CLOSED

You could do something like this: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/236746/change-pinentry-program-temporarily-with-gpg-agent

keep in mind: rofi-pass config is just a bash script too, so you can actually define variables in there.

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I should probably add this to the README

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It's not rofi-pass that spawns anything. it isn't even pass itself. it's gnupg that calls the helper.

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what clipboard did you set in config?

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# Clipboard settings
# Possible options: primary, clipboard, both
clip=primary

I've tried change primary to any of those with the same result.

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Had the same issue but then realized I had copied /etc/rofi-pass.conf 1:1 to ~/.config/rofi-pass while it is required to rename it to config. After that and changing clip from primary to clipboard everything works.

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@rhssk I hoped for this to be the case, but I just checked now, and the filename is ~/.config/rofi-pass/config 😞

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Can you put your config contents here? Also, after entering this echo -n "test" | xclip -selection clipboard in terminal can you paste the copied text ("test")?

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Yep, that command works.

# permanently set alternative root dir
# root=/path/to/root

# rofi command. Make sure to have "$@" as last argument
_rofi () {
    rofi -i -width 700 -no-levenshtein-sort "$@"
}

# keyboard layout (set this to your actual layout. E.g. keyboard="de us"
#keyboard=us

# fields to be used
URL_field='url'
USERNAME_field='user'
AUTOTYPE_field='autotype'

# delay to be used for :delay keyword
delay=2

## Programs to be used
# Editor
EDITOR='gvim -f'

# Browser
BROWSER='google-chrome-beta'

## Misc settings

default_do='menu' # menu, autotype, copyPass, typeUser, typePass, copyUser, copyUrl, viewEntry, typeMenu, actionMenu, copyMenu, openUrl
auto_enter='false'
notify='false'

# color of the help messages
# leave empty for autodetection
help_color="#4872FF"

# Clipboard settings
# Possible options: primary, clipboard, both
clip=clipboard

# Options for generating new password entries
default_user=Brottweiler
default_user2=Brott
password_length=24

# Custom Keybindings
autotype="Alt+1"
type_user="Alt+2"
type_pass="Alt+3"
open_url="Alt+4"
copy_name="Alt+u"
copy_url="Alt+l"
copy_pass="Alt+p"
show="Alt+o"
copy_entry="Alt+2"
type_entry="Alt+1"
copy_menu="Alt+c"
action_menu="Alt+a"
type_menu="Alt+t"
help="Alt+h"
switch="Alt+x"
insert_pass="Alt+n"

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Can you even get the unlocked password with rofi-pass? Try selecting record, hit Enter and choose pass. Does it print anything relevant at all?

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@rhssk Now when you say it, I don't even get anything regarding unlocking with gpg key... Surely I'd need to type my passphrase somewhere?

If I click Enter to choose an entry, then Enter on pass, nothing happens. Or, the rofi window disappears, that's what happens.

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Yes, you should get some kind of dialog menu asking for your GPG passphrase. Does running plain pass with any password record from terminal work for you?

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Plain pass shows me all my different websites and accounts. Obviously, pass somesite.com/account gives me the pinentry to write password (for me, pinentry-curses, not a GUI one). After I've typed my passphrase in, terminal shows me my password. And then ofcource I can use -c to copy it to clipboard.

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I assume you're on Ubuntu so I'm not familiar with their packages, but you should make sure that you have the GUI one available as pinentry-curses would obviously need a terminal called first (I doubt rofi-pass can do that for you). I just checked and there seem to be some GUI packages available. Try playing around with pinentry-qt and pinentry-gnome3 or pinentry-gtk2.

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Not sure why you think I am on ubuntu, but I am on arch 😛

Hmm, I edited my gpg-agent.conf file to use the qt one instead of curses, but I also assume I had to restart gpg-agent. I used killall for it, but not sure how to start it, so I just rebooted to let it start. pass gives me gpg: decryption failed: No secret key, so I need to solve that first...

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Couldn't find pinentry-curses in Arch repos but could in Ubuntu's. Turns out it is build in core/pinetry. You can just kill gpg-agent and it will be called when needed. I don't have anything configured in gpg-agent.conf besides default-cache-ttl, mostly default behavior. Check this section out: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GnuPG#pinentry

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I fixed my issue above. For reference, I think using killall gpg-agent is bad. From reading man gpg-agent, I killed gpg agent with gpgconf --kill gpg-agent, then started it with gpgconf --kill gpg-agent, and now it works.

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% ls -l /usr/bin/pinentry*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     14 Nov 27 18:54 /usr/bin/pinentry -> pinentry-gtk-2
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  64976 Nov 27 18:54 /usr/bin/pinentry-curses
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  52400 Nov 27 18:54 /usr/bin/pinentry-emacs
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  73488 Nov 27 18:54 /usr/bin/pinentry-gnome3
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  82160 Nov 27 18:54 /usr/bin/pinentry-gtk-2
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 115328 Nov 27 18:54 /usr/bin/pinentry-qt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  56560 Nov 27 18:54 /usr/bin/pinentry-tty

So because I now use the qt default one (I backed up my gpg-agent.conf file), and already tried it out in terminal, I already identified. So now when I copy entries in rofi-pass, it works. So the issue was pinentry being curses and not a GUI one. Closing, thanks for the help.

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Cheers

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Since it's unrelated to the clipboard manager, I edited the title of this issue to reflect what the issue actually was; that the password didn't get copied, and that pinentry didn't show up at all.

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@carnager Do you think it would be possible, if having the curses pinentry enabled, to spawn a terminal? So instead of using the gtk one, and having a GUI pop up, you get a terminal to popup, with pinentry-curses. After entering the password successfully, it closes.

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You could specify pinentry program in you ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf like this:
pinentry-program termite --exec="/usr/bin/pinentry-curses"
or if you're using urxvt
pinentry-program urxvt -e "/usr/bin/pinentry-curses"

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True, but then the issue is when I actually use the terminal to use pass, it will still launch a new terminal. First world problems...

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I'm trying to get the above script work with rofi-pass but I'm not being successfull. I've tried simply just copy pasting the script to the config, but all I get is the OK Pleased to meet you message which you get if you try to run the pinentry-gtk-2 for example by itself.

Any idea?

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I had a similar problem: when executing rofi-pass with an i3 key binding, pinentry didn't show up, but if I ran rofi-pass from a terminal emulator, everything worked fine and pinentry-curses was used. Installing the qt-based pinentry helped (sudo dnf install pinentry-qt on Fedora).

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Does anybody have an idea on how to make pinentry-curses work?

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