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From: Chris Stankevitz <chrisstankevitz@×××××.com>
To: "gentoo-user@l.g.o" <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: [gentoo-user] How does ssh know to use "pinentry"?
Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2014 01:41:43
Message-Id: CAPi0psvseDogcHdnCGyc1DoDDoe1ryj2X2RUnx7nDLcXi4mLZQ@mail.gmail.com
1 I am trying to ssh into a site using PKI. I have a private key in my
2 .ssh directory that requires a passphrase.
3
4 ssh is asking me for my passphrase using a terrible program called
5 "pinentry". It's terrible for a bunch of reasons, and if you are
6 interested you can just google "pinentry sucks".
7
8 pinentry is on my system because it is a dependency of gpg. gpg is on
9 my system because I use thunderbird with +crypt (which is the
10 default).
11
12 Question:
13
14 By what mechanism does ssh know to use the program "pinentry" to
15 acquire my passphrase?
16
17 Thank you,
18
19 Chris

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] How does ssh know to use "pinentry"? Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-user] How does ssh know to use "pinentry"? Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>