pinentry-kwallet(1) [debian man page]
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. BSD
May 10, 2011 BSD
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PINENTRY-CURSES(1) General Commands Manual PINENTRY-CURSES(1) NAME
pinentry-curses - PIN or pass-phrase entry dialog for GnuPG SYNOPSIS
pinentry-curses [OPTION...] DESCRIPTION
pinentry-curses is a program that allows for secure entry of PINs or pass phrases. That means it tries to take care that the entered information 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 par- ticular software. pinentry-curses implements a PIN entry dialog using the curses tool kit, meaning that it is useful for users working in text mode without the X Window System. There are other flavors that implement PIN entry dialogs that use an X tool kit. If you have installed any of the latter programs then this program is not necessary because the X flavors automatically fall back to text mode if X is not active. pinentry-curses 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-curses; 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 pinen- try-curses). --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-curses. They are required because pinentry-curses 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-gtk-2(1), pinentry-qt(1), pinentry-fltk(1), pinentry-gnome3(1), pinentry-tty(1), gpg(1), gpg-agent(1) The full documentation for pinentry-curses 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-CURSES(1)