On Sat, 06 Apr, 2013 at 19:31:33 GMT, Erik Johnson wrote:
> I use gpg-agent (with ssh support enabled), and when I use pinentry-curses
> from within tmux, the pinentry prompt rarely appears in the current pane.
> Sometimes it appears in a different window, sometimes it appears on tty1,
> there doesn't seem to be a rhyme or reason to it (though there is probably
> some pattern, which I am just not seeing).
>
> I've taken to using the gtk2 version of pinentry to get a prompt to appear
> reliably, but this means that I need to forward X11 to get it to work on a
> remote workstation. I'd rather just use pinentry-curses so I don't have to
> do that.
>
> I'm guessing that the problem here is a misconfigration on my end, but I'm
> at a loss for what it might be. Here is my .tmux.conf, for reference:
> http://pastebin.com/xd3gQpSq
In my zshrc I have:
GPG_TTY=$( tty )
export GPG_TTY
This ensures that any pinentry-curses launched from a terminal gets the
right ptty[1].
--Ben
[1]I think anyways; I don't really use pinentry much; mutt usually asks
me.
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