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

2014-07-05 Thread Chris Stankevitz
On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 7:57 PM, Rich Freeman 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 clients you can

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

2014-07-05 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 9:41 PM, Chris Stankevitz 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 sucks." Historicall

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

2014-07-05 Thread Chris Stankevitz
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". pi