pinentry-mac asks for passphrase even though it is available in Keychain Access
Reported by Support | May 16th, 2019 @ 01:48 AM | in 2.2.20 (closed)
Assigned to Stable #70286. Due to an error in macOS Mojave (rdar://50789571) it is possible that pinentry-mac is unable to retrieve the password from an existing keychain item and thus continuously asks for the password.
Until Apple has fixed their bug, the only thing we could do is to test for the bug being active and if so, present some informations to the user and a workaround.
see also #730
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steve May 29th, 2019 @ 12:37 PM
- Tag cleared.
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- Importance changed from “” to “Low”
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steve September 18th, 2019 @ 12:39 PM
- State changed from “new” to “verified”
- Tag cleared.
closing
Apple fixed rdar://50789571 in macOS 10.15. 10.14 remains unfixed as it seems Apple does not want to backport the fix. Nothing we can do about that. Thus setting to verified.
For 10.14 we now have a fix which prevents that the item in macOS keychain is deleted. See https://gpgtools.lighthouseapp.com/projects/66001/tickets/730
There is nothing more we can do to improve the problematic situation for users on macOS 10.14. We asked Apple about a backport but have not received a reply.
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steve September 18th, 2019 @ 12:47 PM
- Milestone set to “2.4.0”
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steve June 29th, 2020 @ 11:58 AM
- Milestone changed from “2.4.0” to “2.2.20”
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Luke Le
steve
Support
Referenced by
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730
pinentry-mac might delete a correct passphrase and may not be able to save the new passphrase (related to rdar://50789571)
see also #729