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2huguy
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 Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2024 8:35 pm Post subject: Pass not working with old ~/.gnupg |
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I wanted to switch to gentoo a few days ago and I use pass as my password manager so I created a backup of the 2 directories: ~/.gnupg and ~/.password-store in a xz tar archive on an external drive, without exporting my gpg private keys, and wiped my main drive, however after extracting the archive and copying the directories to my home directory, I cannot view my old pass entries. For example, I type but an error message comes up instead of pinentry:
| Code: | | gpg: decryption failed: No secret key |
I do have pinentry installed.
I can remove ~/.gnupg and start from scratch by creating a new ~/.gnupg with
| Code: | | gpg --full-generate-key |
then pinentry starts working and I can create new pass entries and do what I want with them, but I cannot view old pass entries, the same error message comes up.
This is my gpg.conf:
This is my gpg-agent.conf:
| Code: | default-cache-ttl 3153600000
pinentry-program /usr/bin/pinentry-curses
allow-loopback-pinentry |
gpg --list-secret-keys shows no output.
In ~/.gnupg/private-keys-v1.d/ I do have 2 .key files with really long names.
I really think I messed up by not exporting my private keys beforehand and that there's nothing I can do now but if someone is able to help me out, I'll really appreciate it. |
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GoingDown
Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 13 Jan 2004
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Location: Finland
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| Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2024 8:19 am Post subject: |
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| Only thing which comes to my mind is to download any (older) live DVD/USB Linux image, install gnupg there, copy old dir, then export your keys. This should be possible on most live Linux distributions. |
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Hu
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| Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2024 3:54 pm Post subject: |
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| Is the problem that the files representing the private keys are no longer present, or that you have private key files that you cannot process with the current version of GnuPG? If the former, can you recover those keys from your last full system backup (rather than the minimal archive created just before migration)? The keys change rarely, so even a backup from a few months ago is likely sufficient. |
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