pasting a key to pinentry within kmail doesnt work after upgrading to 0.7.6-1.fc11 downgrading pinentry and pinentry-qt to 0.7.4-6.fc11 makes it work again.
I believe it's a security feature (no copy/paste of sensitive pin/passwords allowed), it may have been a bug that it worked previously. I'll double-check.
Thanks for the lightning fast answer! (: I didnt think of it as a security feature by now. For me it is more secure to paste a password (that is very long and containts a lot special characters) then to type a password that I can easily remember.
I tried to reproduce this bug and pasting seems to work for me in two ways: * selecting text on terminal and pasting with middle mouse button * ctr-c in firefox and pasting with ctrl-v in pinentry-qt both approaches seem to work fine I used 0.7.6-4.fc12 though, so there might be something different (changes in qt itself for example) causing failure on your side...Can you try to reproduce on f-12? I'll try to reproduce on f-11 in the meantime :-)
I can confirm that pasting works again in 0.7.6-4.fc12. Thanks, Stanislav! (:
I have to reopen this bug. Copy/Paste only works in pinentry-qt (qt3) version not in pinentry-qt4!
F13 provides qt4 only (pinentry-qt-0.8.0-3.fc13.i686.rpm). So pasting does not work anymore which is a regression for me. Installing pinentry-qt-0.7.6-5.fc13.i686.rpm makes it work again. Having a quick look at the source code qt4/qsecurelineedit.h shows "# define QT_NO_CLIPBOARD". But it does not compile without it.
I actually discussed this on gpa-devel mailing list some time ago, see [1]. Especially second part and further messages in that thread. Also see [2] and [3] for more information and suggestions to "fix" this. In summary this seems to be upstream goal and not really a bug. We could perhaps workaround this somehow, but as you yourself noticed upstream doesn't support this. If the patch/fix is simple enough maybe we could use it for Fedoras. [1] http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gpa-dev/2010-April/002491.html [2] http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gpa-dev/2010-May/002505.html [3] http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gpa-dev/2010-June/002506.html
Thanks for the update. "no-grab" did not do the trick for me. So I will keep the qt3 version for now.
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I moved the bug to F-13 since that's where it's currently happening.
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Moved to F-14.
Marking wontfix as upstream intended behavior. Yes, it sucks, a little. sorry. No, I don't think we'd consider changing it ourselves
(In reply to Rex Dieter from comment #13) > Marking wontfix as upstream intended behavior. > > Yes, it sucks, a little. sorry. > No, I don't think we'd consider changing it ourselves It sucks a lot, I will not manually enter a 20 char password with symbols, etc.