[PATCH] --batch should imply --pinentry-mode=loopback???

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

This for bringing this up!

On Fri 2015-05-01 03:30:36 -0400, NIIBE Yutaka wrote:
> These are fix candidates for the issue 1928:
>     https://bugs.gnupg.org/gnupg/issue1928
>
> In g10/passphrase.c, there is a condtion like:
>
>    (opt.batch || opt.pinentry_mode == PINENTRY_MODE_LOOPBACK)
>
> ... which makes me wonder if there is a case people want to specify
> options with --batch --pinentry-mode=ask/cancel.

There is definitely a case where we want both --batch and
--pinentry-mode=ask

Consider a graphical GnuPG frontend that does key generation.

Ideally, that frontend should not need to ever touch the user's
password, or to implement any password-entry UI.  However, it should be
able to select appropriate values for the initial user ID and for any
sort of key parameters (usage flags, etc) that are relevant to the use
case.

Please do not remove the ability to use --gen-key --batch with
--pinentry-mode=ask !

          --dkg
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