Using gpg2 without pinentry?

[Dan Mahoney, System Admin]

Hey there,

I currently use gnupg 1 from within Alpine (running under screen), and it 
works okay, but I had a bear of a time using gpg2 because of the pinentry 
stuff.  Specifically, gpg was launched within a mail filter, and had no 
idea how to spawn a third program (the pinentry window)) in a correct way. 
I've tried kludging it so it launches in a different screen by tweaking 
various environment variables, but this seems the wrong way to go about 
it.  As does running with X-forwarding just to launch a tiny pinentry app 
(I can't guarantee I'll have an xserv everywhere I sit.)

Is there some reasonable way that gpg can detect that it has a controlling 
termainal (or even, a config file option) and just ask me for my 
passphrase on stdin?

I am my sysadmin.  I trust me :)

-Dan

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It's probably illegal, potentially dangerous, and definitely crazy."

-Harry nods-

Vincent Spano, as Boris in "Creator".


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