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From: Chris Stankevitz <chrisstankevitz@gmail.com>
To: "gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org" <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How does ssh know to use "pinentry"?
Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2014 18:18:32 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPi0pssQwBzwNjdGEwFwXhKNG0PWQAtN-HsEV0Ar_6nxp4=+dg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGfcS_k_G6NgBrt6474TDboNaJQaq3ncUQq0owiWT083W3YxWA@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 5:45 PM, Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org> wrote:
> GPG_AGENT_INFO tells ssh to use gpg-agent.

Hi Rich,

Are you saying that the ssh software checks for the presence of the
GPG_AGENT_INFO environment variable?  It find it odd that ssh
hard-code the names of all possible agents.  Also, I thought the ssh
folks were BSD-friendly and GPG was GPL-friendly.

Thanks,

Chris


  reply	other threads:[~2014-07-07  1:18 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
2014-07-07  1:18       ` Chris Stankevitz [this message]
2014-07-07  1:30         ` Rich Freeman
2014-07-07  8:05     ` Alan McKinnon

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