gpg: cancelled by user
While signing a release tar.gz with gpg key, I got into this weird issue. After digging the internet I finally got the solution. Here is the error that I got and below is the solution to this issue.
[user@host tar]$ gpg --armor --output something.tar.gz.asc --detach-sig something-.tar.gz
You need a passphrase to unlock the secret key for
user: "user (somthing)"
4096-bit RSA key, ID 654321, created 2012-06-22
can't connect to `/home/user/.gnupg/S.gpg-agent': No such file or directory
gpg-agent[7582]: command get_passphrase failed: Operation cancelled
gpg: cancelled by user
gpg: no default secret key: General error
gpg: signing failed: General error
Initially I thought I didn't start the gpg-agent
[user@host tar]$ eval $(gpg-agent --daemon)
I started the gpg-agent with the above eval
[user@host tar]$ gpg --armor --output something.tar.gz.asc --detach-sig something-.tar.gz
You need a passphrase to unlock the secret key for
user: "user (somthing)"
4096-bit RSA key, ID 654321, created 2012-06-22
can't connect to `/home/user/.gnupg/S.gpg-agent': No such file or directory
gpg-agent[7582]: command get_passphrase failed: Operation cancelled
gpg: cancelled by user
gpg: no default secret key: General error
gpg: signing failed: General error
Finally after allowing other's to r+w on tty seem to solve this issue
[root@host ~]# chmod o+rw $(tty)
[user@host tar]$ gpg --armor --output something.tar.gz.asc --detach-sig something-
You need a passphrase to unlock the secret key for
user: "user (somthing)
4096-bit RSA key, ID 654321, created 2012-06-22
can't connect to `/home/user/.gnupg/S.gpg-agent': No such file or directory
gpg-agent[7582]: command get_passphrase failed: Operation cancelled
gpg: cancelled by user
gpg: no default secret key: General error
gpg: signing failed: General error
Initially I thought I didn't start the gpg-agent
[user@host tar]$ eval $(gpg-agent --daemon)
I started the gpg-agent with the above eval
[user@host tar]$ gpg --armor --output something.tar.gz.asc --detach-sig something-
You need a passphrase to unlock the secret key for
user: "user (somthing)
4096-bit RSA key, ID 654321, created 2012-06-22
can't connect to `/home/user/.gnupg/S.gpg-agent': No such file or directory
gpg-agent[7582]: command get_passphrase failed: Operation cancelled
gpg: cancelled by user
gpg: no default secret key: General error
gpg: signing failed: General error
Finally after allowing other's to r+w on tty seem to solve this issue
[root@host ~]# chmod o+rw $(tty)
Comments
For some reason, gpg "sign" command fails if you use "su" to switch the user.
gpg: cancelled by user
decryption failed: No secret key
Exception in component tFileInputFullRow_1
I tried chmod o+rw $(tty)
It is asking passphrase.we are running cron jobs for gpg decryption.we can not give passphrase every time.
Please provide any solution to this.