Re: Avoid pinentry-gtk-2 when using console!

2009-06-03 Thread Roger
On Tue, 2009-06-02 at 22:24 -0800, Roger wrote: > s like I need to go back, re-enable the gpg-agent compile time > option, ensure it's configured to my liking per your above notes > concerning "keep-*" options. Gather accurate data & go bug them! ;-) Just a quick ping here, as I'm again looking

Re: Avoid pinentry-gtk-2 when using console!

2009-06-02 Thread Roger
On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 08:02 +0200, Werner Koch wrote: > On Tue, 2 Jun 2009 22:43, rog...@sdf.lonestar.org said: > > (or .gnupg/option statement or environmental variable) which seeks to > > make gpg/pinentry usage stricter. > > Right; that is why a standard solution would not work. > > > (Grante

Re: Avoid pinentry-gtk-2 when using console!

2009-06-02 Thread Werner Koch
On Tue, 2 Jun 2009 22:43, rog...@sdf.lonestar.org said: > Again, still sounds like a hack as (I could have done this here). It's Or write your own pinentry; it is a separate package for a reason. > Think it's paranoia unless one is on a public network or is being > aggressively sought after al

Re: Avoid pinentry-gtk-2 when using console!

2009-06-02 Thread Roger
On Tue, 2009-06-02 at 12:31 +0200, Werner Koch wrote: > On Sun, 31 May 2009 07:49, rog...@sdf.lonestar.org said: > > > if {environmental variable is set to console/gtk/qt3} > > use the specified pinentry flavor > > You can easily implement this with a little pinentry wrapper script and > using

Re: Avoid pinentry-gtk-2 when using console!

2009-06-02 Thread Werner Koch
On Sun, 31 May 2009 07:49, rog...@sdf.lonestar.org said: > if {environmental variable is set to console/gtk/qt3} > use the specified pinentry flavor You can easily implement this with a little pinentry wrapper script and using the PINENTRY_USER_DATA envvar which is passed all the way from gpg t

Re: Avoid pinentry-gtk-2 when using console!

2009-06-01 Thread Ingo Klöcker
On Monday 01 June 2009, Roger wrote: > On Sun, 2009-05-31 at 22:52 +0100, Benjamin Donnachie wrote: > > 2009/5/31 Roger : > > > I know this sounds ridiculous, but when you consider a > > > console/terminal to be as good look'n as a girl, and then you're > > > made to a X window and forced to type i

Re: Avoid pinentry-gtk-2 when using console!

2009-05-31 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
2009/5/31 Roger : > If you only use Signatures/Encryption once a month, that's a lot of > passphrase entering & caching! The gnupg v2 is the wrong tool for you. Take a look at gnupg v1.4.x. Ben ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http:/

Re: Avoid pinentry-gtk-2 when using console!

2009-05-31 Thread Roger
On Sun, 2009-05-31 at 22:52 +0100, Benjamin Donnachie wrote: > 2009/5/31 Roger : > > I know this sounds ridiculous, but when you consider a console/terminal > > to be as good look'n as a girl, and then you're made to a X window and > > forced to type in it, it just feels ridiculous. Think most fol

Re: Avoid pinentry-gtk-2 when using console!

2009-05-31 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
2009/5/31 Roger : > I know this sounds ridiculous, but when you consider a console/terminal > to be as good look'n as a girl, and then you're made to a X window and > forced to type in it, it just feels ridiculous.  Think most folks whom > praise the console Gods, feel the same way. Enable passphr

Re: Avoid pinentry-gtk-2 when using console!

2009-05-31 Thread Roger
On Sun, 2009-05-31 at 15:08 +0200, Moritz Schulte wrote: > > This bugs me because I'm working on the console and have to move my > > fingers from the keyboard to my mouse (or whatever) to enter the pin > > into the X widget instead of console! > > Actually, the graphical pinentry should capture th

Re: Avoid pinentry-gtk-2 when using console!

2009-05-31 Thread Roger
On Sun, 2009-05-31 at 13:09 +0100, Benjamin Donnachie wrote: > 2009/5/31 Roger : > > From searching on the web, there's quite a few others griping about this > > same issue. > > I do wish people would stop complaining about open source > software and actually roll their sleeves up and do something

Re: Avoid pinentry-gtk-2 when using console!

2009-05-31 Thread Daryl Styrk
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 01:09:23PM +0100, Benjamin Donnachie wrote: > I do wish people would stop complaining about open source > software and actually roll their sleeves up and do something to > help. Working my way through the 'Llama' book at the mo

Re: Avoid pinentry-gtk-2 when using console!

2009-05-31 Thread Moritz Schulte
> This bugs me because I'm working on the console and have to move my > fingers from the keyboard to my mouse (or whatever) to enter the pin > into the X widget instead of console! Actually, the graphical pinentry should capture the keyboard focus and thus make it unnecessary to use the mouse in t

Re: Avoid pinentry-gtk-2 when using console!

2009-05-31 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
2009/5/31 Roger : > From searching on the web, there's quite a few others griping about this > same issue. I do wish people would stop complaining about open source software and actually roll their sleeves up and do something to help. One solution, create a symbolic link in your home directory to

Re: Avoid pinentry-gtk-2 when using console!

2009-05-30 Thread Roger
On Sat, 2009-05-30 at 23:16 -0400, Steven W. Orr wrote: > Whatever program you're using that is invoking gpg has the DISPLAY > variable set. What you can do is to create a shell wrapper that shuts > DISPLAY off. e.g., I'm running alpine, so I *could* create an alpine > command a la > > #! /bin

Re: Avoid pinentry-gtk-2 when using console!

2009-05-30 Thread Steven W. Orr
On Saturday, May 30th 2009 at 16:58 -, quoth Roger: Is there a method to avoid using pinentry-gtk-2 when using a console within X and specify using pinentry or pinentry-curses? I've already tried recompiling gnupg & pinentry (using -gtk -qt3). :-/ This bugs me because I'm working on the c