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Magical command to make gpg work with YubiKey smartcard

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Fixed most problems such as:

gpg: agent_genkey failed: No pinentry
Key generation failed: No pinentry

gpg-agent[339]: smartcard signing failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
gpg-agent[339]: command 'PKSIGN' failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device <Pinentry>

qgpg-agent[339]: DBG: no device present

Credits go to @DomT4 https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-versions/issues/681#issuecomment-77455942

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fix.sh

killall gpg-agent && gpg-agent --daemon --use-standard-socket --pinentry-program /usr/local/bin/pinentry

zhangyoufu commented Jun 29, 2021

/usr/local/bin/pinentry does not work well for me. It appears on wrong tty, and key input was interfered.

brew install pinentry-mac and set pinentry-program /usr/local/bin/pinentry-mac in ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf works well for me.

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