Ricardo Yanez wrote: > Is there a way to instruct gpg to request the passphrase in the > old-fashioned way, in the terminal, when logged-in remotely via SSH?
I did something similar recently for to be able to build and sign packages automatically in chroot, but it can be useful to you as well. I don't recall the source where I got some of the commands, but here are my notes on the subject gpg agent edit ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf, and add a line use-agent edit ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf >>>>>>> start pinentry-program /usr/bin/pinentry no-grab default-cache-ttl 86400 ###+++--- GPGConf ---+++### verbose allow-mark-trusted debug-level basic log-file socket:///home/user/.gnupg/log-socket ###+++--- GPGConf ---+++### 7.06.2005 () 13,30,15 CEST # GPGConf edited this configuration file. # It will disable options before this marked block, but it will # never change anything below these lines. >>>>>>>>> end Then, restart your session, and you should have gpg-agent running and the environment variable $GPG_AGENT_INFO set. or gpg-agent --daemon gpg-connect-agent reloadagent /bye eval $(gpg-agent)
