Using gpg2 without pinentry?

[Nicholas Cole]

On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 8:35 PM, Doug Barton <dougb at dougbarton.us> wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Jun 2010, Nicholas Cole wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 8:55 PM, Dan Mahoney, System Admin
>> <danm at prime.gushi.org> wrote:
>>
>>> 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?
>>
>> Can you start gpg-agent separately - ie. before the passphrase is
>> needed.  If so, you should be fine, I think, if I have understood your
>> problem correctly.
>
> That's not the issue. To simplify the problem somewhat, I'm on a windows
> box. I ssh to my Unix system at home. My .bashrc sets up gpg-agent for me.
> Now I want to sign something. The usual answer here is "pinentry-curses to
> the rescue." But let's assume that pinentry-curses is not an option. Now how
> do I enter my passphrase?


Do none of the gpg-agent options such as:


       --xauthority string

       --keep-tty

       --keep-display

help in this kind of case?

N.