how to disable pinentry

[Smith, Cathy]

Damien

Adding this line didn't work:
	pinentry-program /usr/bin/pinentry-tty

The message was invalid option
	gpg: /home/foo/.gunpg/gpg.conf:242:  invalid option

The CentOS6 and RHEL6 distributions don't  provide a /usr/bin/pinentry-tty.   

One of my goals of this is to be able to set a passphrase on a key in batch processing.  Perhaps, there is another way to accomplish that?


Thank you

Cathy
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-----Original Message-----
From: Gnupg-users [mailto:gnupg-users-bounces at gnupg.org] On Behalf Of Damien Goutte-Gattat
Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2015 1:06 AM
To: gnupg-users at gnupg.org
Subject: Re: how to disable pinentry

On 02/25/2015 02:01 AM, Smith, Cathy wrote:
> Can someone tell the how to disable pinentry?  I'd like to be able to run gpg --edit-key, or to open a password encrypted file without a GUI.

You could use a console-only pinentry, such as pinentry-curses or pinentry-tty. Add the following line in your ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf:

   pinentry-program /usr/bin/pinentry-tty


> I have gpg 2.0.14 on CentOS 6.6 and RHEL6U6.
>
> I've tried to disable pinentry, without success, with the following
> 	1. comment out use-agent in ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf

You cannot avoid using GnuPG Agent with gpg 2. As stated in the man page, gpg 2 always requires the agent, and the use-agent option has no effect.


Damien