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On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 8:40 PM, Chris Stankevitz |
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<chrisstankevitz@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On another note, from my OP, I am still curious how the ssh software |
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> knows to use /usr/bin/pinentry to fetch my passphrase. In a follow-up |
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> post, I discovered that this mechanism only works if an environment |
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> variable called GPG_AGENT_INFO is set. I doubt the ssh source code |
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> contains the string "/usr/bin/pinentry" or "GPG_AGENT_INFO". |
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GPG_AGENT_INFO tells ssh to use gpg-agent. ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf |
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tells gpg-agent to use pinentry. |
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Rich |
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