gpg: signing failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device Error Message on Linux

[Werner Koch]

On Fri, 30 Sep 2016 14:37, justus at g10code.com said:

> fallback pinentry failed to open the terminal due to the fact that stdin
> of the gpg process is not connected to a terminal.  The latter can
> happen for example when gpg is used in a pipe.

That does not matter.  The pinentry opens the tty on its own.  To do
this it needs to know the tty.  Fortunately gpg knows the tty or can
take it from the GPG_TTY envvar and passes the name of the tty device
via gpg-agent up to pinentry.


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner

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