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Exporting and importing GPG keys over SSH
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pull-private.sh
ssh user@remote gpg --export-secret-key KeyId | gpg --allow-secret-key-import --import
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pull-public.sh
# Based on key ID.
ssh user@remote gpg --export KeyId | gpg --import
# Based on key owner name.
ssh user@remote gpg --export -a KeyOwnerName | gpg --import
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push-private.sh
gpg --export-secret-key KeyId | ssh user@remote gpg --allow-secret-key-import --import
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push-public.sh
gpg --export KeyId | ssh user@remote gpg --import
@Jacob-Stevens-Haas
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Jacob-Stevens-Haas commented Dec 9, 2022

Thanks! Any idea what error sending to agent: Inappropriate ioctl for device means when pushing public/private key?

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Avaq commented Dec 9, 2022

I have not come across that. I'm sorry.

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aidenscott2016 commented Feb 6, 2023 •
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@Jacob-Stevens-Haas I also have this error. you must add the --batch parameter to the importing gpg. eg gpg --armor --export-secret-keys $KEY_ID | ssh [email protected] gpg --allow-secret-key-import --import --batch gpg (GnuPG) 2.3.7

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hsxfjames commented Dec 17, 2023

I ran into several problems, the following should solve them:

  1. error sending to agent: No pinentry: just install pinentry package on target machine.
  2. error sending to agent: No such file or directory: just like @aidenscott2016 said, need to add --batch parameter with --import together.
  3. problem 2 still, run echo pinentry-mode loopback >> ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf and restart gpg agent after gpgconf --kill gpg-agent should fix it.

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