On 21/04/15 15:29, aslam karachiwala wrote: > If by "passphrase associated with your login account" you mean the > system password for my username
Yes, that is what I mean. So I agree with your analysis then. > Also, why is the pinentry-qt4/gtk-2 dialog appearing at all when I am > SSHing from the command line? Shouldn't I get a command-line prompt? No, if it is able to show the preferred pinentry, it will do that. If that is a graphical pinentry, you'll get a graphical pinentry if possible. HTH, Peter. -- I use the GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG) in combination with Enigmail. You can send me encrypted mail if you want some privacy. My key is available at <http://digitalbrains.com/2012/openpgp-key-peter> _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users