[PATCH] doc: Note pinentry-mode for passphrase opts
Daniel Kahn Gillmor
dkg at fifthhorseman.net
Mon Jan 8 22:54:35 CET 2018
On Mon 2018-01-08 19:19:17 +0100, Andre Heinecke wrote:
> The pinentry-mode should be mentioned in my opinion in the doc / manpage of
> the passphrase options because they won't work if the pinentry-mode is not set
> to loopback. This is similar to the already mentioned --batch requirement.
I agree with the sentiment behind this change. however, some of the
wording can be improved:
> Note that this passphrase is only used if the option @option{--batch}
> -has also been given. This is different from GnuPG version 1.x.
> +has also been given and @option{--pinentry-mode} has to be set to @code{loopback}.
> +This is different from GnuPG version 1.x and 2.0.x.
this should say something like "the requirement for loopback mode was
introduced in GnuPG version 2.1.$whatever". That makes it clearer and
less ambiguous to people who are trying to understand how to configure a
bunch of systems with different versions installed.
--dkg
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