Using gpg2 without pinentry?

[Nicholas Cole]

On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 8:55 PM, Dan Mahoney, System Admin
<danm at prime.gushi.org> wrote:

> Is there some reasonable way that gpg can detect that it has a controlling
> termainal (or even, a config file option) and just ask me for my passphrase
> on stdin?

Can you start gpg-agent separately - ie. before the passphrase is
needed.  If so, you should be fine, I think, if I have understood your
problem correctly.

http://www.gnupg.org/documentation/manuals/gnupg/Invoking-GPG_002dAGENT.html

Best wishes,

Nicholas