[Firefox] pinentry program not being triggered

[craigcabrey]

General information

• Operating system + version: Arch Linux (5.7.5-zen1-1-zen)
• Browser + version: 77.0.1
• Information about the host app:

$ browserpass --version
Browserpass host app version: 3.0.6
$ pacman -Qs browserpass
local/browserpass 3.0.6-5
    Native host app for Browserpass, browser extension for zx2c4's pass (password manager)
local/browserpass-chromium 3.5.0-1
    Chromium extension for Browserpass, browser extension for zx2c4's pass (password manager)
local/browserpass-firefox 3.5.0-1
    Firefox extension for Browserpass, browser extension for zx2c4's pass (password manager)

-   Browserpass extension version as reported by your browser: 3.5.0

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If you are getting an error immediately after opening popup, have you followed the Configure browsers documentation section?

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Exact steps to reproduce the problem

1. Navigate to site with a login page

2. Select the relevant entry from the browserpass

3. Nothing happens

What should happen?

I'm expecting the pinentry program to be invoked. When I preauthenticate (e.g. I manually run pass -c some/path and authenticate via pinentry and return to the browser), using browserpass works as expected. It seems only seems to be when gpg-agent needs to be authenticated that there is an issue.

$ cat .gnupg/gpg-agent.conf 
pinentry-program /usr/bin/pinentry-gnome3

I tested the extension on Chrome and it works as expected.

What happened instead?

gpg-agent remains unauthenticated due to no prompt being triggered.

[mradke]

The same issue is happening under NixOS v.20.03 with the global option programs.browserpass.enable = true;

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Edit:

The readme specifies:

-   on Linux [users report](https://github.com/browserpass/browserpass-extension/issues/155) that `pinentry-gnome3` does not work well with GNOME 3 and Firefox, use e.g. `pinentry-gtk-2`

So I assume this is a duplicate of #155

[maximbaz]

Correct, nothing in browserpass ever triggers pinentry, we are only executing gpg and relying on it to ask your pin if necessary. Please try other pinentry apps and have a look at #155 for some other insights 🙂