On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 10:03:46PM +0200, Stefan Wimmer wrote:
> * [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-09-03 21:47]:
> > On gentoo at least, gnupg2 gets real pissy when there is no X
> > environment. I don't use it all that much, but memory says that
> > clearing DISPLAY and trying numerous other tricks to force a command
> > line passphrase input didn't work, that it always popped up a display
> > window to prompt for it. I don't remember now what happened when
> > there was no display, only that I was frustrated and never did get it
> > to work without a display, or maybe that I could not force it to not
> > use the display if it could find one.
>
> Hmm - last year I would have confirmed your description of the situation of
> gnupg2 on Gentoo but I gave it another try this summer and it was very easy
> to
> get it working with the ncurses interface :)
>
> Just set
>
> GPG_TTY=`tty`
>
> in your SHELL environment and use
>
> pinentry-program /usr/bin/pinentry-curses
>
> in your ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf
That did it. Ncurses is better than X, but I'd still rather a plain
terminal version -- print it and read the response without echo.
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