Re: Password prompt inside Emacs with epg-gpg-program -> "gpg2"?

[Joakim Jalap]

Barry Fishman <barry@ecubist.org> writes:

> On 2016-02-09 10:54:30 +0100, Joakim Jalap wrote:
>> pinentry-emacs can be built from the pintry repo at
>> git.gnupg.org/pintry.git.
>>
>> Together with the correct envvars set, this allows us to input passwords
>> from Emacs, yes :)
>>
>> However this seems to be seen as a sort of hack, and it's disabled by
>> default on Arch Linux, FreeBSD and Debian as it seems, so I have had to
>> build it from source. I guess that alienates a lot of users though :/
>
> But it *is* enabled by default in Arch, and included as a separate
> package in Fedora.
>
> For Arch, its even part of core:
>
> $ pacman -Ss pinentry
> core/pinentry 0.9.7-1 [installed]
>     Collection of simple PIN or passphrase entry dialogs which utilize the
>     Assuan protocol
> $ pacman -Qo /usr/bin/pinentry-emacs
> /usr/bin/pinentry-emacs is owned by pinentry 0.9.7-1
>
> --
> Barry Fishman

Oh cool!

Seems it was added in December last year, so that's probably after my
escapades :)

I actually mailed the maintainer of the FreeBSD port about it, and he
said he would enable it if I could get it to work, but unfortunately I
couldn't get the ports Makefile magic right :(

Joakim