"--passphrase-fd n" not working

[Michael H. Warfield]

On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 12:35:23PM -0400, pd wrote:

> However, with your help and others I have found that both of the following 
> work for me:

> gpg --decrypt -r george --passphrase-fd 0 <pass.txt encrypted.txt

> gpg --decrypt -r george --passphrase-fd 3  3<pass.txt encrypted.txt

> Is there any way to do this with pipes instead of an actual file?  I have a 

	echo "Passphrase" | gpg --decrypt --passphrase-fd 0 encrypted.txt

	Or...  Equivalent to previous file based command...

	cat pass.txt | gpg --decrypt --passphrase-fd 0 encrypted.txt

> number of encrypted texts encrypted with the same key.  I'd like to have a 
> perl program prompt for the passphrase once and decrypt the texts without 
> storing it in a file on the hard drive.

	This snippet of code is taken from a working perl script...

=========================
	open GPG, "|gpg --passphrase-fd 0 --quiet --no-tty -o msg.txt msg.asc > gpg.out 2> gpg.err";

	print GPG "$KEY";
	close GPG;
=========================

> If I replace "pass.txt" with the password or with `echo password_text` it 
> tells me it can't find the file by that name.  Another basic Unix script 
> problem I think - making a string look like file contents.  There has to be 
> a way to do it, I just haven't been able to come up with it yet.  Any help 
> would be appreciated.

	Nope...  You can't just replace the name of the file.  You have
to change to the pipe operator as well.

> Thanks,
> 
> Paul
> 
> >Hth,
> >
> >  Werner
> >
> >
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