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How to connect pass with proton mail-bridge --cli

I have been following tutorials for protonmail-bridge --cli including creating and exporting a ProtonMail Bridge key using:

gpg --batch --passphrase '' --quick-gen-key 'ProtonMail Bridge' default default
gpg --export -a "ProtonMail Bridge"
// pass was already installed so that command was skipped
pass init "ProtonMail Bridge"

// then I tried to run protonmail-bridge --cli and get the following errors
root@IHC:~# protonmail-bridge --cli
WARN[0000] Failed to add test credentials to keychain    error="failed to create item: Object does not exist at path “/org/freedesktop/secrets/collection/login”" helper="*keychain.SecretServiceDBusHelper"
WARN[0000] Failed to add test credentials to keychain    error="Object does not exist at path “/org/freedesktop/secrets/collection/login”" helper="*secretservice.Secretservice"
INFO[0000] Migrating keychain helper                    

            Welcome to Proton Mail Bridge interactive shell
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>>> info
>>> No active accounts.  Please add account to continue.

What the heck am I doing wrong, and how can I fix it? I had it installed and added an account, but it kept not recognizing my keychain helper.

I DO have a paid business account with ProtonMail.


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Bobby Iliev
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June 1, 2023

Hi there,

Did you try running pass init <GPG-ID>, where <GPG-ID> is one of your gpg key IDs? You can create a new gpg key gpg --full-generate-key or reuse an existing one that you own, you can use gpg -k to check what keys you already have.

If this does not help, I’ve seen this before reported on the ProtonMail repository here:

https://github.com/ProtonMail/proton-bridge/issues/190

I could suggest following the suggestions from the answer to that issue.

Let me know how it goes!

Best,

Bobby

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