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Subject: [gentoo-user] How does ssh know to use "pinentry"?
From: Chris Stankevitz <chrisstankevitz@gmail.com>
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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