Can I pass the password from the command line?

[Anthony Papillion]

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On 12/15/2015 5:07 PM, Andrew Gallagher wrote:
> 
>> On 15 Dec 2015, at 22:58, Anthony Papillion
>> <anthony at cajuntechie.org> wrote:
>> 
>> I'd like to script encryption and decryption from the command
>> line. Is there a way to pass the encryption passphrase to GnuPG
>> from the command line.
> 
> I don't think there is a password parameter, and I'd strongly
> recommend not doing it even if there was. Many OSes make the
> command line parameters of processes available to any local user.
> 
> Have you tried piping the password to stdin?
> 
> Andrew

Thank you for the quick answer, Andrew. After thinking about it, I can
see the absolute folly of having something set up the way I requested
and I appreciate you pointing that out. I had not thought about piping
to stdin - never even crossed my mind!

Thanks again!



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