Re: gnome-keyring libsecret writing to stdout

[Stef Walter <stefw gnome org>]

On 14.02.2016 17:00, Neal H. Walfield wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In pinentry, we have the problem that libsecret sometimes writes error
> messages to stdout rather than stderr (specifically, we observe this
> when libsecret can't reach the secret service), which confuses the
> program using pinentry (it expects Assuan IPC on stdout).

Yup, that's a bug we should fix.

For reference, in Cockpit (which also uses GLib) we had issues with
g_debug [or g_log(...G_LOG_LEVEL_DEBUG...)] messages hitting stdout. We
had to work around that.

> The following bug report contains more details:
>
>   https://bugs.gnupg.org/gnupg/issue2243
>
> The relevant part is:
>
>   $ DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=awefwef pinentry
>   OK Pleased to meet you
>   OPTION allow-external-password-cache
>   OK
>   SETKEYINFO monkeyman
>   OK
>   GETPIN
>   Failed to lookup password for key monkeyman with secret service: The name
>   org.freedesktop.secrets was not provided by any .service files

Unless I'm misunderstanding, this bug is in pinentry:

pinentry$ git grep 'Failed to lookup password'
pinentry/password-cache.c:      printf("Failed to lookup password for
key %s with secret service: %s\n",

Cheers,

Stef