From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A7561392EF for ; Mon, 7 Jul 2014 01:30:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 148A9E087A; Mon, 7 Jul 2014 01:30:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-vc0-f195.google.com (mail-vc0-f195.google.com [209.85.220.195]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0EC44E081B for ; Mon, 7 Jul 2014 01:30:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-vc0-f195.google.com with SMTP id id10so1077620vcb.10 for ; Sun, 06 Jul 2014 18:30:49 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type; bh=RGSAS0A579Xok6KOzO+Va264b5xLWAVdPeU/qeLLzKk=; b=LiC58b8HWAbxfyaIbfizWGzqs9plPsWE3Fu9g2S/foC8a9Jdbq6Y21JweNG+NpaZOA d2scQNj9rfugnPTAQ4ghU90IfzttePVpQ4tQx6GCmAVTjsRxVWeeMxttLsAaf3Eo/rqF SC72SgcZayV6CqRIRS8YiCNCcsYMugopLCg3HJwbftNRTvLbhQq5woLfxMKD0fVPYh5M dWtUotqNwt3hD1HO16qT9vtzFmkDKuBsmoSU+KN+DIlVO0xOVz5NmTsmlsKW4YBCR0us yCwDB2iX1CnA0+8hXt5fG8n8z47VB6eIxAf22XmKiNxXLVzqefZd7BELcnnD6WJw1bhN gGVg== Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.220.30.69 with SMTP id t5mr24496084vcc.6.1404696649266; Sun, 06 Jul 2014 18:30:49 -0700 (PDT) Sender: freemanrich@gmail.com Received: by 10.52.72.19 with HTTP; Sun, 6 Jul 2014 18:30:49 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <53B9B279.2070509@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2014 21:30:49 -0400 X-Google-Sender-Auth: uztJgKV2ARiOCQMtA20ZHjZTLbE Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How does ssh know to use "pinentry"? From: Rich Freeman To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: 2860add4-b9cc-42e3-972b-e74ff09490f8 X-Archives-Hash: 56f3507fab703944af74f09fa494b068 On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 9:18 PM, Chris Stankevitz wrote: > On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 5:45 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: >> GPG_AGENT_INFO tells ssh to use gpg-agent. > > Are you saying that the ssh software checks for the presence of the > GPG_AGENT_INFO environment variable? Actually, I'm probably wrong on that. In ssh agent mode I think that gpg-agent also exports SSH_AUTH_SOCKET or something like that and emulates ssh-agent, in addition to exporting GPG_AGENT_INFO. If somebody knows the details feel free to post. For the most part most desktop environments configure it to "just work." Rich