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PostPosted: Sat Jan 14, 2017 7:03 pm 
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Hi,

I want to use my yubikey 4 to sign git commits. I have successfully set-up a master-key (which is completely offline) and three subkeys (one for signing, authentication and encryption each) on my yubikey. Then I configured GIT to use my signing-key and to sign every commit. However, each time I try to do so, I receive the following error message:
Code:
gpg: signing failed: private key is not available


If I use the same command on the shell directly, everything works fine:
Code:
gpg -basu <keyid>


the pinentry programs pops up, I can enter my pin and the signature gets created. I assume that the problem is with the gpg-agent's configuration, but I'm not sure.

Has anyone already configured git to use a yubikey to sign commits and how has it been done?

Cheers.


Last edited by irgendwer on Sun Jan 15, 2017 9:55 pm, edited 1 time in total.

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PostPosted: Sun Jan 15, 2017 9:55 pm 
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I, finally solved this issue.
I'm running gpg 2.1.11 and hence the correct program to call ist gpg2 instead of gpg. For the ease of use I have an alias in my .bashrc, such that I can use gpg. However, git search for the program in the $PATH and hence does not care about the set alias. In order to make git work, I had to configure git to use gpg2 instead. This could - once you know, that you have to do it - easily be done:
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git config --global gpg.pgrogram /usr/bin/gpg2


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