can't get passphrase-fd option to work with GnuPG on HPUX when running a scheduled batch

[poney]

Thanks for the info. We tried imitating your approach, and it seems the 
--no-tty is the main thing that did the trick, though I'm not sure I 
understand why the command worked when we didn't use the --passphrase-fd 
option but broke when we did use that option. Perhaps we didn't test the 
scenarios properly. In any case, I've discovered a bunch of the options that 
are not in the manual but are in the help system, and they seem quite useful.

Regards,

Poney Carpenter 

On Tuesday 13 August 2002 02:22 pm, Steve Butler wrote:
> Try the --batch keyword.  Here is the script I use for decrypting files
> inbound to our site:
>
> #!/bin/ksh
> # COPYRIGHT (c) 1995-2002 Stephen M. Butler dba XRG
> # This information may be copied, distributed and/or modified under
> # certain conditions, but it comes WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY.
> # See the Design Science License for more details
> # =================================================================
> #
> #  gpg_decrypt pass_id   input_file  output_file
> #     Interface for edi and default routines to decrypt pgp files vi GnuPG.
> #
> #     pass_id      1 or 2 to indicate which pass phrase needs to be picked
> up.
> #     input_file   name of file to decrypt.  Includes any path
> #     output_file  name where to place output plain text file (with path)
> #
> #     Note:  See 'default' script for default usage.
>
> homedir=$(default gpg_home)
>
>   rm -f "$3" 2>&1 1> /dev/null
>   default gpg_pass$1 \
>
>   | gpg --homedir $homedir --passphrase-fd 0 --no-tty --skip-verify \
>
>         --output "$3" --decrypt "$2"
> #
>
> Note that our option file includes:
> batch
>