From: Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How does ssh know to use "pinentry"?
Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2014 20:45:51 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGfcS_k_G6NgBrt6474TDboNaJQaq3ncUQq0owiWT083W3YxWA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPi0pstXXEORk=tv9Zqri3kEiC6W9py0cMZuTYPJfpd-Ab9qDw@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 8:40 PM, Chris Stankevitz
<chrisstankevitz@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On another note, from my OP, I am still curious how the ssh software
> knows to use /usr/bin/pinentry to fetch my passphrase. In a follow-up
> post, I discovered that this mechanism only works if an environment
> variable called GPG_AGENT_INFO is set. I doubt the ssh source code
> contains the string "/usr/bin/pinentry" or "GPG_AGENT_INFO".
GPG_AGENT_INFO tells ssh to use gpg-agent. ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf
tells gpg-agent to use pinentry.
Rich
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-07-07 0:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-06 1:41 [gentoo-user] How does ssh know to use "pinentry"? Chris Stankevitz
2014-07-06 2:57 ` Rich Freeman
2014-07-06 3:42 ` Chris Stankevitz
2014-07-06 10:25 ` Rich Freeman
2014-07-06 15:29 ` Chris Stankevitz
2014-07-06 19:09 ` Mick
2014-07-07 0:33 ` Chris Stankevitz
2014-07-06 20:32 ` Alan McKinnon
2014-07-07 0:40 ` Chris Stankevitz
2014-07-07 0:45 ` Rich Freeman [this message]
2014-07-07 1:18 ` Chris Stankevitz
2014-07-07 1:30 ` Rich Freeman
2014-07-07 8:05 ` Alan McKinnon
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