pinentry-mac fails to retrieve/store passphrase on macOS Mojave under some circumstances
Reported by Luke Le | January 7th, 2019 @ 02:42 PM | in 2.2.17 (closed)
Under unknown circumstances pinentry-mac fails to properly retrieve or store a GPG passphrase from macOS Keychain on macOS Mojave.
The problem is that the parts of the system believe that the keychain is unlocked, when trying to access keychain data however, an error auth failed is returned - error code -25293. This particular error code translates to "The user name or passphrase you entered is not correct." (https://opensource.apple.com/source/libsecurity_keychain/libsecurit...)
UPDATE: This might be related to pinentry-mac being modified for
example by installing GPG Suite again which should replace
pinentry-mac but might not do it properly, as described in the link
below:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40638218/mac-launch-daemon-unab...
Workaround: Manually lock and unlock the login keychain
Workaround in pinentry: pinentry could tell the user that it's
not possible to store the keychain since the keychain appears to be
locked and prompt the user to enter their password by running
SecKeychainUnlock and re-trying the retrieve/store
operation afterwards.
Comments and changes to this ticket
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steve February 13th, 2019 @ 12:06 PM
- State changed from “new” to “wontfix”
This is happening so seldomly and a fix would be really hard to be tested. Setting to WONTFIX.
Workaround is to restart the mac.
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