* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-09-03 21:47]: > On gentoo at least, gnupg2 gets real pissy when there is no X > environment. I don't use it all that much, but memory says that > clearing DISPLAY and trying numerous other tricks to force a command > line passphrase input didn't work, that it always popped up a display > window to prompt for it. I don't remember now what happened when > there was no display, only that I was frustrated and never did get it > to work without a display, or maybe that I could not force it to not > use the display if it could find one.
Hmm - last year I would have confirmed your description of the situation of gnupg2 on Gentoo but I gave it another try this summer and it was very easy to get it working with the ncurses interface :) Just set GPG_TTY=`tty` in your SHELL environment and use pinentry-program /usr/bin/pinentry-curses in your ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf But this doesn't answer Kyles question ... Greetz Stefan
