newbie question

[madrook@cox.net]

Hi Johan,

That works.  However, the space before the pipe must be removed:

Echo pass|...

Thank you!

Brad


> -----Original Message-----
> From: gnupg-users-admin@gnupg.org 
> [mailto:gnupg-users-admin@gnupg.org] On Behalf Of Johan Wevers
> Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 3:41 AM
> To: GnuPG users
> Subject: Re: newbie question
> 
> 
> You, madrook@cox.net, wrote:
> 
> > Everytime I decrypt I get prompted for my passphrase to use 
> my secret 
> > key.
> > Is there a way to enter than on the command-line?
> 
> No, due to security arguments the passphrase can only be 
> entered on a file descriptor. If you use NT 4 or win2000, who 
> have a usefull piping mechanism, you could try something like
> 
> echo passphrase | gpg.exe --passphrase-fd 0 file.gpg
> 
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