use text pinentry in the console

[Matthias Apitz]

El día martes, febrero 22, 2022 a las 05:28:00p. m. +0100, Fourhundred Thecat via Gnupg-users escribió:

> Hello,
> 
> when I type a gpg command in the terminal, such as:
> 
>   gpg -c foo
> 
> the GUI pinentry dialog pops up to ask for password (I guess its
> pinentry-gtk-2)
> 
> How can I confugure so that the ncurses (text based) dialog is used
> instead ?
> 
> I am using gpg 2.2.12 on Debian 10

Run

# ls -l /usr/bin/pinent*

and set the sym-link to your needs.

	matthias

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