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PINENTRY-QT4(1) 					      General Commands Manual						   PINENTRY-QT4(1)

NAME

       pinentry-qt4 - PIN or pass-phrase entry dialog for GnuPG

SYNOPSIS

       pinentry-qt4 [OPTION...]

DESCRIPTION

       pinentry-qt4 is a program that allows for secure entry of PINs or pass phrases.	That means it tries to take care that the entered informa-
       tion is not swapped to disk or temporarily stored anywhere.  This functionality is particularly useful for entering pass phrases when using
       encryption software such as GnuPG or e-mail clients using the same.  It uses an open protocol and is therefore not tied to particular soft-
       ware.

       pinentry-qt implements a PIN entry dialog using the Qt 4 tool kit, so it is especially suitable for users of KDE 4.  If the X Window System
       is not active then an alternative text-mode dialog will be used.  There are other flavors that implement PIN entry dialogs using other tool
       kits.

       pinentry-qt4 is typically used internally by gpg-agent.	Users don't normally have a reason to call it directly.

OPTIONS

       --version
	      Print the program version and licensing information.

       --help Print a usage message summarizing the most useful command-line options.

       --debug, -d
	      Turn on some debugging.  Mostly useful for the maintainers.  Note that this may reveal sensitive information like the  entered  pass
	      phrase.

       --enhanced, -e
	      Ask for timeouts and insurance, too.  Note that this is currently not fully supported.

       --no-global-grab, -g
	      Grab  the keyboard only when the window is focused.  Use this option if you are debugging software using pinentry-qt4; otherwise you
	      may not be able to to access your X session anymore (unless you have other means to connect to the machine to kill pinentry-qt4).

       --parent-wid N
	      Use window ID N as the parent window for positioning the window.	Note, that this is not fully supported by all flavors of pinentry.

       --display STRING, --ttyname STRING, --ttytype STRING, --lc-type STRING, --lc-messages STRING
	      These options are used to pass localization information to pinentry-qt4.	They are required because pinentry-qt4 is  usually  called
	      by  some	background  process which does not have any information on the locale and terminal to use.  Assuan protocol options are an
	      alternative way to pass these information.

SEE ALSO

       pinentry-curses(1), pinentry-gtk-2(1), gpg(1), gpg-agent(1)

       The full documentation for pinentry-qt4 is maintained as a Texinfo manual.  If the pinentry-doc package is installed, the command

	      info pinentry

       should give you access to the complete manual.

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Peter Eisentraut for the Debian project.

								    27 Jan 2005 						   PINENTRY-QT4(1)

PINENTRY-KWALLET(1)					    BSD General Commands Manual 				       PINENTRY-KWALLET(1)

NAME

     pinentry-kwallet -- kwallet-based pass-phrase dialog for use with GnuPG

SYNOPSIS

     pinentry-kwallet [-q] [options]

DESCRIPTION

     pinentry-kwallet is a kwallet- and pinentry-based pass-phrase dialog for use with GnuPG.  It is intended to be called from the gpg-agent(1)
     daemon and not invoked directly.

     pinentry-kwallet replaces the regular pinentry-program stanza set in ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf and looks up the passphrases requested in the
     KWallet first, falling back to pinentry only if not found.  The user is given the option to store it in the KWallet afterwards.  Negative
     answers to this are also stored in the KWallet to avoid asking each time.

     pinentry-kwallet (like other pinentry variants) talks a simplified subset of the regular Assuan protocol on stdio; all commands, even unknown
     ones, are passed through to a pinentry co-process during run-time, even if the latter is never used.  It accepts the same options as
     pinentry, even unknown ones, because it is designed to plug in.  As an exception, -q makes pinentry-kwallet more quiet (suppress warnings on
     stderr), and -V displays the version on stderr (unless -q).

     pinentry-kwallet attempts sophisticated error handling: if an error dialogue is displayed, an internal counter is increased.  If the counter
     reaches 2, the value stored in the KWallet is ignored, and the user is asked anew.  The counter is stored in the KWallet, which is suboptimal
     but necessary, because gpg2(1) does not re-use the Assuan sessions, instead spawning a new pinentry-kwallet each time a passphrase is
     required (rather stupid).	Error counters are valid for 15 seconds since their last increasement.

RETURN VALUES

     pinentry-kwallet exits 1 if it is called recursively, 0 if help or version information are requested, and return codes do not matter in any
     other cases because errors are signalled in-band.	It will exit 0 after the Assuan session is terminated.

ENVIRONMENT

     DISPLAY   The X11 display to use for child processes.  If not set, pinentry-kwallet will immediately replace itself with the slave PINENTRY
	       programme to use.

     GPG_TERM  Terminal type of the current tty.

     GPG_TTY   The current terminal.

     PINENTRY  The pinentry programme to use.  Default: ``pinentry''

SEE ALSO

     date(1), gpg-agent(1), gpg2(1), kwalletcli(1), kwalletcli_getpin(1), mksh(1), pinentry-curses(1), pinentry-gtk-2(1), pinentry-qt(1),
     pinentry-x11(1)

AUTHORS

     pinentry-kwallet was written by Thorsten Glaser <tg@mirbsd.org> mostly for tarent GmbH.

CAVEATS

     Some newer pinentry features, such as three-button operation, are not supported yet.

     Some commands, such as version inquiry, as passed through to the pinentry coprocess indiscriminately, which may lead to strange results,
     should the protocol change or extend.

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