Re: Flushing the GPG/PGP passphrase buffer ?

1999-12-01 Thread Lars Hecking

John P . Looney writes:
  Soemtimes, when I type my passphrase, I mistype - it's ~fifty characters
 long, so it's not *that* unexpected. Anyway. Mutt never asks me to re-issue
 the passphrase if GPG reports back a bad passphrase. Is there anyway bar
 quitting out of mutt, or to go into the PGP menu, select "Sign (a)s", and
 reselect my key again ?
 
 Typing "?" in the message index brings you to the online help.

^F  forget-passphrase  wipe PGP passphrase from memory




Re: Flushing the GPG/PGP passphrase buffer ?

1999-12-01 Thread Frank Altpeter


Hello !

John P . Looney wrote on 01.12.1999 11:07:15 +:
  Soemtimes, when I type my passphrase, I mistype - it's ~fifty characters
 long, so it's not *that* unexpected. Anyway. Mutt never asks me to re-issue
 the passphrase if GPG reports back a bad passphrase. Is there anyway bar
 quitting out of mutt, or to go into the PGP menu, select "Sign (a)s", and
 reselect my key again ?

You want to type "?" and then "/forget" and you will find the option:

^F  forget-passphrase  wipe PGP passphrase from memory

So pressing CTRL-F will enable you to re-enter the passphrase.



With kind regards,

Frank Altpeter

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Re: Flushing the GPG/PGP passphrase buffer ?

1999-12-01 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt

On Wed, Dec 01, 1999 at 11:07:15AM +, John P . Looney wrote:
  Soemtimes, when I type my passphrase, I mistype - it's ~fifty characters
 long, so it's not *that* unexpected. Anyway. Mutt never asks me to re-issue
 the passphrase if GPG reports back a bad passphrase. Is there anyway bar
 quitting out of mutt, or to go into the PGP menu, select "Sign (a)s", and
 reselect my key again ?

ctrl-f

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