Monday, May 30, 2016

One annoyance when entering GPG passphrases in terminal applications on many systems is that a seperate GUI window pops up. To enable passphrase entry in the comfort of your own terminal, set the following line in .gnupg/gpg-agent.conf

pinentry-program /usr/bin/pinentry-tty

or in some older distributions (e.g. CentOS 7):

pinentry-program /usr/bin/pinentry-curses

The running agent's settings can be reconfigured with:

gpg-connect-agent reloadagent /bye

See also "Making GPG pinentry work over SSH".

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