> I see from [1] that pinentry-w32 exists which is a replacement for > pinentry-curses which was in [2].
pinentry-w32 works great, but it requires you to be logged in to the GUI, and _then_ invoke gpg-agent, in order for things to work. And you need to do this every time the pin times out. Obviously not the end of the world, but having a console one is much nicer, because it works over an ssh connection. On Fri, Nov 2, 2018 at 4:21 PM cyg Simple <cygsim...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 11/2/2018 3:47 PM, David Dombrowsky wrote: > > I don't see a way to download `pinentry-curses` or `pinentry-tty` for > > use with `gpg-agent` (using gnupg v2). Are these not maintained? Or > > am I just looking at the wrong sources? > > > > In any case, I got pinentry-1.1.0 to compile against a cygwin-supplied > > version of ncurses, and it mostly works (you still need to tell it to > > not detach from the tty, not sure what's up with that). This is very > > useful when signing git commits, and removing the need for a graphical > > console just to input my gpg passphrase. > > I see from [1] that pinentry-w32 exists which is a replacement for > pinentry-curses which was in [2]. Now both of these are version 1.0.0. > Based on [3] Marco Atzeri can give or point to reasoning. > > [1] > https://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-cat.cgi?file=x86_64%2Fpinentry%2Fpinentry-1.0.0-2&grep=pinentry > [2] > https://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-cat.cgi?file=x86_64%2Fpinentry%2Fpinentry-1.0.0-1&grep=pinentry > [3] https://cygwin.com/cygwin-pkg-maint > > -- > cyg Simple > > -- > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > -- David Dombrowsky, Senior Software Engineer email: da...@6thstreetradio.org Cell: 518-374-3204 https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-dombrowsky-94334415 http://6thstreetradio.org/ -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
