[gentoo-user] How does ssh know to use pinentry?

I am trying to ssh into a site using PKI. I have a private key in my .ssh directory that requires a passphrase. ssh is asking me for my passphrase using a terrible program called pinentry. It's terrible for a bunch of reasons, and if you are interested you can just google pinentry sucks.

Re: [gentoo-user] How does ssh know to use pinentry?

On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 9:41 PM, Chris Stankevitz chrisstankev...@gmail.com wrote: ssh is asking me for my passphrase using a terrible program called pinentry. It's terrible for a bunch of reasons, and if you are interested you can just google pinentry sucks. Probably more a case of X11

Re: [gentoo-user] How does ssh know to use pinentry?

On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 7:57 PM, Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote: In any case, I suspect that gpg-agent is actually serving passwords to openssh, so the file you want is ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf - it probably contains the line pinentry-program /usr/bin/pinentry. If you trust all your X