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23.3; EasyPG: pinentry in remote emacs session without X

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Message #11 received at 8791 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: "Roland Winkler" <winkler <at> gnu.org>
To: Daiki Ueno <ueno <at> unixuser.org>
Cc: 8791 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#8791: 23.3; EasyPG: pinentry in remote emacs session without X
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2011 21:18:10 -0500

On Fri Jun 3 2011 Daiki Ueno wrote:
> Well I think pinentry should fallback to use curses in this case.
> However it is not currently possible since there is no way to get the
> tty where Emacs is running.  See:
> 
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/96207

I do not know much about the internals of gpg. I was wondering: for
gpg, is there anything similar to the ssh-add command, which could
serve as a fallback?

Roland

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