On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 11:00:46AM -0700, @lbutlr wrote: > I ma trying to figure out why pin entry and pinetnry-tty are installed. If I > try to remove it, I get a list of post that are to be deleted. > > Installed packages to be REMOVED: > gnupg: 2.2.27 > gpgme: 1.15.1 > mimedefang: 2.83_3 > mutt: 2.0.4 > pinentry: 1.1.0_7 > pinentry-tty: 1.1.0 > spamass-milter: 0.4.0_4 > spamassassin: 3.4.4 > subversion: 1.14.0 > > I've looked through he config for all of these and not seen anything about > PIN entry, and am wondering why it would be required to run any of these > packages.
pinentry is (also) used to enter (e,g,) passphrases (as would be used by gnupg). > I cannot imagine any circumstances in which I would need to enter a PIN on a > TTY and no one else could possibly do so. > > I suspect mutt since it is relatively newly installed, nut I see nothing in > the config that seems like it wold disable this. (Mutt is used as a > convenient way to send html formatted mail of some system events), it is not > used to access mail off the server and is only used by me to access mail on > the server. > .... You may well need but a subset of the default options in that case. Peace, david -- David H. Wolfskill da...@catwhisker.org Some "Republicans" seem bound and determined to turn the party known for touting "law and order" into one that supports mob rule and insurrection. See https://www.catwhisker.org/~david/publickey.gpg for my public key.
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