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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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