As far as I have seen in the pass script, --batch mode is oly invoked if you are running a gpg agent or are running gpg2.
Do you have gpg2 installed? Do you have a gpg agent configured? You may need to include the following line in your ~.profile : export GPG_TTY=$(tty) Shadrock Uhuru <niyal...@gmail.com> wrote: > [-- text/plain, encoding 8bit, charset: utf-8, 61 lines --] > > Hi > >>From: Rubén Llorente <port...@use.startmail.com> >>To: misc@openbsd.org >>Subject: Re: pass 'password manager' problem >>Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2020 16:22:37 -0000 (UTC) >> >>Do you have a ~.gnupg/gpg.conf ? Pass works fine for me. >> >>Shadrock Uhuru <niyal...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> [-- text/plain, encoding 7bit, charset: utf-8, 6 lines --] >>> >>> running 'pass username' returns >>> "gpg: Sorry, we are in batchmode - can't get input", >>> am i missing a piece of software or setting ? >>> >>> shadrock >>> > > yes i have the following > cat ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf > > use-agent > pinentry-mode loopback > personal-cipher-preferences CAMELLIA256 AES256 AES192 AES CAST5 > # personal-cipher-preferences AES256 AES192 AES CAST5 CAMELLIA192 > # BLOWFISH TWOFISH CAMELLIA128 3DES > personal-digest-preferences SHA512 SHA384 SHA256 SHA224 > personal-compress-preferences BZIP2 ZIP ZLIB > default-preference-list SHA512 SHA384 SHA256 SHA224 AES256 AES192 AES > CAST5 ZLIB BZIP2 ZIP Uncompressed > cert-digest-algo SHA512 > digest-algo SHA256 > s2k-mode 3 > s2k-digest-algo SHA512 > s2k-cipher-algo AES256 > s2k-count 1015808 > charset utf-8 > fixed-list-mode > no-greeting > no-secmem-warning > no-comments > no-emit-version > keyid-format 0xlong > list-options show-uid-validity > verify-options show-uid-validity > keyserver-options import-clean-sigs import-clean-uids export-clean-sigs > export-clean-uids > keyserver hkp://hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net > keyserver-options auto-key-retrieve > keyserver-options no-honor-keyserver-url > escape-from-lines > bzip2-compress-level 9 > compress-level 9 > with-fingerprint > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > shadrock > > [-- application/x-pkcs7-signature, encoding base64, 67 lines, name: smime.p7s > --] -- OpenPGP Key Fingerprint: BB5A C2A2 2CAD ACB7 D50D C081 1DB9 6FC4 5AB7 92FA