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Hello there,
Is there a way to pass the gpg passphrase to the agent without making use of the pinentry program? E.g. by the means of stdin?
Background - what I want to achieve:
I'd like to use the neat script passmenu to copy passwords from my password database to the clipboard.
However this apparently only works if
one uses pinentry-{gtk,qt} OR
one launches the script from within a terminal window when using pinentry-curses - the reason is that a terminal window won't get opened in order to use the curses interface; the process just terminates
I don't like the graphical dialogue and I want to stick to curses. On the other hand, avoiding a terminal window is the sole purpose of the script.
I know there has to be a way to pass the passphrase to the agent, because mutt presents a custom prompt integrated in its main window IF one uses pinentry-curses. The fact that mutt nicely integrates the prompt into its interface is one of reasons to use the curses option for pinentry.
Any ideas how to circumvent the pinentry program while using the agent? Are there any alternative pinentry programs which make customization easy (i.e. which make it possible to use dmenu to enter the passphrase)?
EDIT: My google-fu didn't help my but I guess these comrades have the same problem...
Last edited by ball (2014-04-11 11:56:57)
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