LinuxQuestions.org - weird gpg error

Hey all,

I run a mac at home and wanted to be able to access my gpg keypair from a remtote Linux host (centos 6.5). So apparently I made a mistake by rsync'ing my .gnupg directory from my home on the mac to the remote host.

Because even tho I can list keys on the remote host:

Code:

[root@monitor:~/creds/scalr] #gpg --list-keys

/root/.gnupg/pubring.gpg

------------------------

pub  1024D/F186197B 2010-11-30

uid                  Tim Dunphy <bluethundr@somewhere.com>

uid                  Tim Dunphy <bluethundr@somewhere.com>

uid                  Tim Dunphy <tdunphy@somewhere.com>

uid                  Tim Dunphy (MLB Work e-mail) <tim.dunphy@somewhere.com>

sub  2048g/B712B288 2010-11-30



pub  2048R/C059E8CD 2010-11-30 [revoked: 2012-12-27]

uid                  Tim Dunphy <bluethundr@somewhere.com>



pub  4096R/4BD6EC30 2010-07-10 [expired: 2012-07-09]

uid                  Puppet Labs Release Key (Puppet Labs Release Key) <info@puppetlabs.com>



pub  4096R/6F60D626 2012-12-27 [revoked: 2012-12-27]

uid                  Tim Dunphy <bluethundr@somewhere.com>

I cannot decrypt or encrypt messages. When I try to decrypt this is the error I get:

Code:

[root@monitor:~/creds/scalr] #gpg -d scalr-creds.asc



You need a passphrase to unlock the secret key for

user: "Tim Dunphy <bluethundr@somewhere.com>"

2048-bit ELG key, ID B712B288, created 2010-11-30 (main key ID F186197B)



can't connect to `/root/.gnupg/S.gpg-agent': No such file or directory

gpg-agent[16157]: can't connect server: `ERR 67109133 can't exec `/usr/local/MacGPG2/libexec/pinentry-mac.app/Contents/MacOS/pinentry-mac': No such file or directory'

gpg-agent[16157]: can't connect to the PIN entry module: IPC connect call failed

gpg-agent[16157]: command get_passphrase failed: No pinentry

gpg: problem with the agent: No pinentry

gpg: encrypted with 2048-bit ELG key, ID B712B288, created 2010-11-30

      "Tim Dunphy <bluethundr@somewhere.com>"

gpg: public key decryption failed: General error

gpg: decryption failed: No secret key

As you can see, the error is referring to a Macintosh directory. Which must have something to do with the fact that the keypair I was trying to use was generated on a mac.

I've even tried starting fresh on that host by rm -rf'ing the .gnupg directory in my home directory. But it's no luck even after I create a fresh keypair. I get the same message when I try to encrypt or decrypt.

Here are listings of my .gnupg directory in case this might shed any clues as to why this is happening:

Code:

[root@monitor:~/creds/scalr] #ls -ld ~/.gnupg

drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Feb  7 23:30 /root/.gnupg





[root@monitor:~/creds/scalr] #ls -l ~/.gnupg/

total 52

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  107 Feb  2 11:59 gpg-agent.conf

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9087 Feb  2 11:59 gpg.conf

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb  2 11:59 private-keys-v1.d

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8260 Feb  2 11:59 pubring.gpg

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  600 Feb  2 11:59 random_seed

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9355 Feb  2 11:59 secring.gpg

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1480 Feb  2 12:00 trustdb.gpg

Any help here would be _definitely_ appreciated.

Thanks!