GPG-AGENT "ignoring" pinentry program? wrong pinentry app for ssh-keys

Question

Hi!
I am using gpg-agent to handle my gpg keys and wanted it to handle my ssh keys too, since it is running anyway.
it works perfectly fine with gpg keys, my pinentry program is pinentry-qt4 , upon request that window pops up for me to enter my passphrase.
as window manager i use awesome wm.
however, when i try to use my ssh key, e.g. for github, no pinentry program pops up and in xterm it looks like:
[me@mybox dotfiles]$ git push origin master
it seems that is is waiting for my passphrase input but it isnt asking for it. neither does it accept it.
when i quit my WM, i see that it executed the pinentry program directly in my tty1, to which i do not have access while running my WM.
my gpg-agent.conf:
me@mybox ~/.gnupg> cat gpg-agent.conf
default-cache-ttl 300
max-cache-ttl 7200
pinentry-program /usr/bin/pinentry-qt4
how do i get gpg-agent to respect my pinentry choice for my ssh keys as well?
thanks for your time !

Answer 1

I use this
$ cat /etc/kde/env/gpg-agent-startup.sh
#!/bin/sh
# see https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/SSH_Keys
GPG_AGENT=/usr/bin/gpg-agent
## Run gpg-agent only if not already running, and available
if [ -x "${GPG_AGENT}" ] ; then
# check validity of GPG_SOCKET (in case of session crash)
GPG_AGENT_INFO_FILE=${HOME}/.gpg-agent-info
if [ -f "${GPG_AGENT_INFO_FILE}" ]; then
GPG_AGENT_PID=`cat ${GPG_AGENT_INFO_FILE} | grep GPG_AGENT_INFO | cut -f2 -d:`
GPG_PID_NAME=`cat /proc/${GPG_AGENT_PID}/comm`
if [ ! "x${GPG_PID_NAME}" = "xgpg-agent" ]; then
rm -f "${GPG_AGENT_INFO_FILE}" 2>&1 >/dev/null
else
GPG_SOCKET=`cat "${GPG_AGENT_INFO_FILE}" | grep GPG_AGENT_INFO | cut -f1 -d: | cut -f2 -d=`
if ! test -S "${GPG_SOCKET}" -a -O "${GPG_SOCKET}" ; then
rm -f "${GPG_AGENT_INFO_FILE}" 2>&1 >/dev/null
fi
fi
unset GPG_AGENT_PID GPG_SOCKET GPG_PID_NAME SSH_AUTH_SOCK
fi
if [ -f "${GPG_AGENT_INFO_FILE}" ]; then
eval "$(cat "${GPG_AGENT_INFO_FILE}")"
eval "$(cut -d= -f 1 "${GPG_AGENT_INFO_FILE}" | xargs echo export)"
export GPG_TTY=$(tty)
else
eval "$(${GPG_AGENT} -s --enable-ssh-support --daemon --pinentry-program /usr/bin/pinentry-qt4 --write-env-file)"
fi
fi
I think I could probably use the /etc/profile.d location but when I first set it up, kde was already running gpg-agent so I adapted its file. Later, I uninstalled the thing which does that in kde and just kept my own customised version.
Are you sure that your xinitrc isn't starting a second gpg-agent?