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PINENTRY-CURSES(1) General Commands Manual PINENTRY-CURSES(1)
NAME
pinentry-curses - PIN or pass-phrase entry dialog for GnuPG
SYNOPSIS
pinentry-curses [OPTION...]
DESCRIPTION
pinentry-curses is a program that allows for secure entry of PINs or pass phrases. That
means it tries to take care that the entered information is not swapped to disk or tempo-
rarily stored anywhere. This functionality is particularly useful for entering pass
phrases when using encryption software such as GnuPG or e-mail clients using the same. It
uses an open protocol and is therefore not tied to particular software.
pinentry-curses implements a PIN entry dialog using the curses tool kit, meaning that it
is useful for users working in text mode without the X Window System. There are other
flavors that implement PIN entry dialogs that use an X tool kit. If you have installed
any of the latter programs then this program is not necessary because the X flavors auto-
matically fall back to text mode if X is not active.
pinentry-curses is typically used internally by gpg-agent. Users don't normally have a
reason to call it directly.
OPTIONS
--version
Print the program version and licensing information.
--help Print a usage message summarizing the most useful command-line options.
--debug, -d
Turn on some debugging. Mostly useful for the maintainers. Note that this may re-
veal sensitive information like the entered pass phrase.
--enhanced, -e
Ask for timeouts and insurance, too. Note that this is currently not fully sup-
ported.
--no-global-grab, -g
Grab the keyboard only when the window is focused. Use this option if you are de-
bugging software using pinentry-curses; otherwise you may not be able to to access
your X session anymore (unless you have other means to connect to the machine to
kill pinentry-curses).
--parent-wid N
Use window ID N as the parent window for positioning the window. Note, that this
is not fully supported by all flavors of pinentry.
--display STRING, --ttyname STRING, --ttytype STRING, --lc-type STRING, --lc-messages
STRING
These options are used to pass localization information to pinentry-curses. They
are required because pinentry-curses is usually called by some background process
which does not have any information on the locale and terminal to use. Assuan pro-
tocol options are an alternative way to pass these information.
SEE ALSO
pinentry-gtk-2(1), pinentry-qt(1), pinentry-fltk(1), pinentry-gnome3(1), pinentry-tty(1),
gpg(1), gpg-agent(1)
The full documentation for pinentry-curses is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the
pinentry-doc package is installed, the command
info pinentry
should give you access to the complete manual.
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Peter Eisentraut for the Debian project.
27 Jan 2005 PINENTRY-CURSES(1)
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