On 2019-11-20 at 12:41:23, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I'm having an annoying problem that I can't figure out. I hope Git has > a setting to fix it. > > I have a desktop workstation where I sit at the keyboard about 1/3 of > the time. Git signing works as expected. About 2/3 of the time I SSH > into the machine. Git signing does not work when SSH'd in. > > When Git signing fails over SSH an error looks like: > > $ git commit -S log.h -m "Remove unneeded header" > error: gpg failed to sign the data > fatal: failed to write commit object > > I just noticed this today (but it makes sense)... > > - Go to desktop workstation, log in > - Go to remote machine, log in > - Sign at remote machine over SSH > - Desktop workstation will open GUI password prompt > - Remote machine sign operation will hang until GUI prompt times-out This isn't really a Git problem, so much as a GnuPG one. You probably want to use the curses pinentry input instead of the GUI one. If you're using Ubuntu, you can set "pinentry-program /usr/bin/pinentry-curses" in ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf, kill all of the gpg-agent processes, and then attempt to sign again. You may also need to set GPG_TTY and/or kill the gpg-agent process when logging in remotely. See gpg-agent(1) for details on configuration and use. -- brian m. carlson: Houston, Texas, US OpenPGP: https://keybase.io/bk2204
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: PGP signature
