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From: Matt Smith <fbsd@xtaz.co.uk>
To: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
Subject: Re: gnupg & pinentry
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On Dec 22 22:33, Jonathan Chen wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Once upon a time, installing gnupg didn't require pinentry, and I
>could run it quite happily on the command line. However, nowadays if I
>install the port it drags in pinentry and a whole set of graphical
>libraries that I don't really need on a headless box. Is pinentry
>really required for gnupg to run correctly?
>

I believe in version 2.1.x they made entering the passphrase via 
pinentry basically mandatory and deprecated being able to do it via 
stdin methods. So it probably pulls in pinentry by default now. For 
binary packages this is unfortunatly going to default to all the front 
ends which includes ones for X. For port based source installs you can 
deselect the ones for X and only leave the ncurses one which then just 
pulls in one extra dependancy. Unfortunately that's the downside of 
binary package installs.

FYI, you can also re-enable passphrases by stdin if required by adding 
allow-loopback-pinentry to .gnupg/gpg-agent.conf and using the 
--pinentry-mode=loopback command line switch to gpg.

-- 
Matt