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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 temporarily 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 automatically 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 reveal sensitive information like the entered
          pass phrase.

   --enhanced, -e
          Ask  for  timeouts  and  insurance,  too.   Note  that  this  is
          currently not fully supported.

   --no-global-grab, -g
          Grab  the  keyboard  only  when the window is focused.  Use this
          option if you  are  debugging  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
          protocol  options  are  an  alternative  way   to   pass   these
          information.

SEE ALSO

   pinentry-gtk-2(1), pinentry-qt(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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