Can I pass the password from the command line?

[Steve Butler]

There is under 1.4.  Don't know if it is in v2.  I'm not at my desk to pop the script open.   But you could pipe the passphrase via stain and tell gpg  to grab it from there.  Be careful as that still leaves it in the clear to those reading your script.   Potential local users could also see it if you echo'd it to the pipe.



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-------- Original message --------
From: Andrew Gallagher <andrewg at andrewg.com>
Date: 12/15/2015 15:09 (GMT-08:00)
To: Anthony Papillion <anthony at cajuntechie.org>
Cc: gnupg-users at gnupg.org
Subject: Re: Can I pass the password from the command line?


> 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
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