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dragor
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 Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2016 10:29 pm Post subject: GnuPG always prompting for passphrase |
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I've been using duplicity for automated backups from a cron script for years. Recently I updated gnupg to version 2.1.15 and it's causing problems. I've been setting the environment variable in my cron job script for the passphrase. The export is done like this:
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export PASSPHRASE=****
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Now it seems that gnupg doesn't use this environment variable any more. It will always show a dialog to ask for a passphrase. This is fine when I run the script manually, but fails from a cronjob.
So my question is, how do I fix this? How can I automate duplicity and gnupg to run from a cronjob where it does not need any user input? Is there a new environment variable to set? An option to pass to duplicity so it can pass the passphrase to gnupg?
Thanks
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khayyam
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dragor ...
using =app-crypt/gnupg-1.4.x in place of 2.x should resolve the issue, see this post for details.
HTH & best ... khay |
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Hu
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| If you want the key to be usable without user intervention, and you are willing to have the passphrase stored on disk, why not remove the passphrase instead? |
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