Using gpg from a console-based environment such as ssh sessions fails because the GTK pinentry dialog cannot be shown in a SSH session.
I tried unset DISPLAY
but it did not help. The GPG command line options do not include a switch for forcing the pinentry to console-mode.
Older GPG versions offered a text-based prompt that worked fine in SSH sessions but after the upgrade it just fails.
There is the --textmode
command line switch but apparently, it does something else.
What would be the proper and clean way of getting plain-text pin entry for remote sessions?
Best Answer
To change the pinentry permanently, append the following to your
~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf
:(In older versions which lack pinentry-tty, use pinentry-curses for a 'full-terminal' dialog window.)
Tell the GPG agent to reload configuration: