Crashes password is used

[GRBurst]

Hey,

today I tried this tool. Sadly - I can not get it to work.

It is not possible to call ph init or use it with my existing database - it always results in the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/ph", line 11, in <module>
    load_entry_point('passhole==1.5.1', 'console_scripts', 'ph')()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/passhole/passhole.py", line 523, in main
    args.func(args)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/passhole/passhole.py", line 205, in type_entries
    kp = open_database(args)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/passhole/passhole.py", line 188, in open_database
    create_password_cache(args.cache, password, args.gpgkey)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/passhole/passhole.py", line 134, in create_password_cache
    gpg.encrypt([selected_key], 0, infile, outfile)
gpgme.GpgmeError: (7, 53, 'Unusable public key')

I am using a keyfile and a password. Using only a keyfile and no password (empty) seem to work, but using both or only a password results in the mentioned error.

As far as I can tell it is not an issue with special chars - even if i just try it with a password like "abc" it crashes.

Any advise?

[Evidlo]

Can you check the trust level of your GPG key? You can check it like so.

[Evidlo]

Anyway, the right way to fix this is to change the trust level to 5.

gpg2 --list-keys
gpg2 --edit-key [key_name] trust

[GRBurst]

Hey - thanks for your effort and your response. It think I will test it the next week - couldn't reserve time to test it yet.

[GRBurst]

I thought that passhole creates a new gpg key if I create a new database by calling ph init?

If I list my keys - there are multiple keys. Which one is used by passhole?

Furthermore, how can I enable caching for an existing database with keyfile and password.

It expected that, if I specify a database and a keyfile and run passhole it will handle that automatically, but it tells me that it is unable to decrypt my key.

Could not decrypt cache
Password or keyfile incorrect

So it seems that I have to create a key for gpg manually, is that correct? Can you hint me on what to do exactly?

[Evidlo]

Passhole uses the first gpg-key by default and prints a message telling you to create one if you don't have any keys. The first time you give it your database password, it stores this in an encrypted file on disk.

The error you're getting means that whatever key it's trying to decrypt with isn't what was used to create the cache. Try deleting ~/.cache/passhole_cache and running ph ls.

[Evidlo]

Did this work out for you?

[Evidlo]

I think this issue is fixed. If it's not, feel free to reopen.