Bug 2252449 - GnuPG uses keyboxd by default but Fedora doesn't ship systemd units
Summary: GnuPG uses keyboxd by default but Fedora doesn't ship systemd units
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gnupg2
Version: 39
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jakub Jelen
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/80238
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2023-12-01 18:19 UTC by Anton Tetov Johansson
Modified: 2025-04-17 13:13 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2024-11-27 22:12:10 UTC
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Red Hat Issue Tracker FC-1052 0 None None None 2023-12-01 18:19:39 UTC

Description Anton Tetov Johansson 2023-12-01 18:19:07 UTC
Apparently upstream stopped shipping systemd units but they were restored for F39: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2246111

keyboxd, a key database daemon introduced in GnuPG 2.3.0 is now enabled by default in 2.4.1 (https://github.com/gpg/gnupg/blob/gnupg-2.4.3/README#L119-L145) if user hasn't got a ~/.gnupg dir.

It is not started as part of gpg-agent, it can be started with gpg-connect-agent:

gpg-connect-agent --keyboxd

https://www.gnupg.org/documentation/manuals/gnupg/Invoking-gpg_002dconnect_002dagent.html

Over at Arch's bug tracker there's a service and a socket file that looks reasonable to me, except there's no package providing /usr/lib/gnupg/keyboxd
 on Fedora: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/80238

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install gnupg2
2. systemctl --user enable gpg-agent.socket
3. Run gpg -K
Actual Results:  
gpg: no keyboxd running in this session
gpg: error opening key DB: No Keybox daemon running
gpg: keydb_search_first failed: Input/output error

Expected Results:  
[keyboxd]
---------
sec#  rsa4096/0x337DDB574A8834DB 2020-06-01 [SC]
      Key fingerprint = 2B4D 0035 AFF0 F7DA CE5B  29D7 337D DB57 4A88 34DB
uid                   [ultimate] Anton Tetov Johansson <anton>
uid                   [ultimate] tetov <anton>
ssb>  rsa4096/0xEFD87259941676E0 2020-06-01 [A] [expires: 2025-06-22]
ssb>  rsa4096/0x6BCAFF0120433A0E 2020-06-01 [S] [expires: 2025-06-22]
ssb>  rsa4096/0xC82EF919DDF5E395 2020-06-01 [E] [expires: 2025-06-22]

Comment 1 Jakub Jelen 2024-01-09 13:08:41 UTC
I am not a systemd expert and I have a limited knowledge of how the new keyboxd work. Do you want to propose a PR with the necessary changes? The arch service files were already modified since the initial report.

I would be happy to review and merge your contribution!

Comment 2 Aoife Moloney 2024-11-13 10:11:28 UTC
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Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora Linux 39 on 2024-11-26.
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Comment 3 Aoife Moloney 2024-11-27 22:12:10 UTC
Fedora Linux 39 entered end-of-life (EOL) status on 2024-11-26.

Fedora Linux 39 is no longer maintained, which means that it
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Comment 4 Jakub Jelen 2025-04-17 13:13:45 UTC
In the end, the keybox systemd units were added and are available in the current release.


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