From: Chris Stankevitz <chrisstankevitz@gmail.com>
To: "gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org" <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: [gentoo-user] How does ssh know to use "pinentry"?
Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2014 18:41:33 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPi0psvseDogcHdnCGyc1DoDDoe1ryj2X2RUnx7nDLcXi4mLZQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
I am trying to ssh into a site using PKI. I have a private key in my
.ssh directory that requires a passphrase.
ssh is asking me for my passphrase using a terrible program called
"pinentry". It's terrible for a bunch of reasons, and if you are
interested you can just google "pinentry sucks".
pinentry is on my system because it is a dependency of gpg. gpg is on
my system because I use thunderbird with +crypt (which is the
default).
Question:
By what mechanism does ssh know to use the program "pinentry" to
acquire my passphrase?
Thank you,
Chris
next reply other threads:[~2014-07-06 1:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-06 1:41 Chris Stankevitz [this message]
2014-07-06 2:57 ` [gentoo-user] How does ssh know to use "pinentry"? 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
2014-07-07 1:30 ` Rich Freeman
2014-07-07 8:05 ` Alan McKinnon
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