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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How does ssh know to use "pinentry"?
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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