{ "content": [ { "type": "text", "text": "# pinentry-curses (man)\n\n## NAME\n\npinentry-curses - PIN or pass-phrase entry dialog for GnuPG\n\n## SYNOPSIS\n\npinentry-curses [OPTION...]\n\n## DESCRIPTION\n\npinentry-curses is a program that allows for secure entry of PINs or pass phrases. That\nmeans it tries to take care that the entered information is not swapped to disk or temporar‐\nily stored anywhere. This functionality is particularly useful for entering pass phrases\nwhen using encryption software such as GnuPG or e-mail clients using the same. It uses an\nopen protocol and is therefore not tied to particular software.\n\n## Sections\n\n- **NAME**\n- **SYNOPSIS**\n- **DESCRIPTION**\n- **OPTIONS** (1 subsections)\n- **SEE ALSO**\n- **AUTHOR**\n\nUse structuredContent.sections for detailed options, examples, and full documentation.\n" } ], "structuredContent": { "command": "pinentry-curses", "section": "", "mode": "man", "summary": "pinentry-curses - PIN or pass-phrase entry dialog for GnuPG", "synopsis": "pinentry-curses [OPTION...]", "tldr_summary": null, "tldr_examples": [], "tldr_source": null, "flags": [ { "flag": "", "long": "--version", "arg": null, "description": "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 debug‐ ging 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 pinen‐‐ try-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 op‐ tions are an alternative way to pass these information." } ], "examples": [], "see_also": [ { "name": "pinentry-gtk-2", "section": "1", "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/pinentry-gtk-2/1/json" }, { "name": "pinentry-qt", "section": "1", "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/pinentry-qt/1/json" }, { "name": "pinentry-fltk", "section": "1", "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/pinentry-fltk/1/json" }, { "name": "pinentry-gnome3", "section": "1", "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/pinentry-gnome3/1/json" }, { "name": "pinentry-tty", "section": "1", "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/pinentry-tty/1/json" }, { "name": "gpg", "section": "1", "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/gpg/1/json" }, { "name": "gpg-agent", "section": "1", "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/gpg-agent/1/json" } ], "section_outline": [ { "name": "NAME", "lines": 2, "subsections": [] }, { "name": "SYNOPSIS", "lines": 2, "subsections": [] }, { "name": "DESCRIPTION", "lines": 15, "subsections": [] }, { "name": "OPTIONS", "lines": 1, "subsections": [ { "name": "--version", "lines": 27, "long": "--version" } ] }, { "name": "SEE ALSO", "lines": 10, "subsections": [] }, { "name": "AUTHOR", "lines": 5, "subsections": [] } ], "sections": { "NAME": { "content": "pinentry-curses - PIN or pass-phrase entry dialog for GnuPG\n", "subsections": [] }, "SYNOPSIS": { "content": "pinentry-curses [OPTION...]\n", "subsections": [] }, "DESCRIPTION": { "content": "pinentry-curses is a program that allows for secure entry of PINs or pass phrases. That\nmeans it tries to take care that the entered information is not swapped to disk or temporar‐\nily stored anywhere. This functionality is particularly useful for entering pass phrases\nwhen using encryption software such as GnuPG or e-mail clients using the same. It uses an\nopen protocol and is therefore not tied to particular software.\n\npinentry-curses implements a PIN entry dialog using the curses tool kit, meaning that it is\nuseful for users working in text mode without the X Window System. There are other flavors\nthat implement PIN entry dialogs that use an X tool kit. If you have installed any of the\nlatter programs then this program is not necessary because the X flavors automatically fall\nback to text mode if X is not active.\n\npinentry-curses is typically used internally by gpg-agent. Users don't normally have a rea‐\nson to call it directly.\n", "subsections": [] }, "OPTIONS": { "content": "", "subsections": [ { "name": "--version", "content": "Print the program version and licensing information.\n\n--help Print a usage message summarizing the most useful command-line options.\n\n--debug, -d\nTurn on some debugging. Mostly useful for the maintainers. Note that this may reveal\nsensitive information like the entered pass phrase.\n\n--enhanced, -e\nAsk for timeouts and insurance, too. Note that this is currently not fully supported.\n\n--no-global-grab, -g\nGrab the keyboard only when the window is focused. Use this option if you are debug‐\nging software using pinentry-curses; otherwise you may not be able to to access your X\nsession anymore (unless you have other means to connect to the machine to kill pinen‐‐\ntry-curses).\n\n--parent-wid N\nUse window ID N as the parent window for positioning the window. Note, that this is\nnot fully supported by all flavors of pinentry.\n\n--display STRING, --ttyname STRING, --ttytype STRING, --lc-type STRING, --lc-messages STRING\nThese options are used to pass localization information to pinentry-curses. They are\nrequired because pinentry-curses is usually called by some background process which\ndoes not have any information on the locale and terminal to use. Assuan protocol op‐\ntions are an alternative way to pass these information.\n", "long": "--version" } ] }, "SEE ALSO": { "content": "pinentry-gtk-2(1), pinentry-qt(1), pinentry-fltk(1), pinentry-gnome3(1), pinentry-tty(1),\ngpg(1), gpg-agent(1)\n\nThe full documentation for pinentry-curses is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the pinen‐‐\ntry-doc package is installed, the command\n\ninfo pinentry\n\nshould give you access to the complete manual.\n", "subsections": [] }, "AUTHOR": { "content": "This manual page was written by Peter Eisentraut for the Debian project.\n\n\n\n27 Jan 2005 PINENTRY-CURSES(1)", "subsections": [] } } } }