PINENTRY-KWALLET(1) BSD Reference Manual PINENTRY-KWALLET(1)
pinentry-kwallet - kwallet-based pass-phrase dialog for use with GnuPG
pinentry-kwallet [-q] [options]
pinentry-kwallet is a kwallet- and pinentry-based pass-phrase dialog for
use with GnuPG. It is intended to be called from the gpg-agent(1) daemon
and not invoked directly.
pinentry-kwallet replaces the regular pinentry-program stanza set in
~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf and looks up the passphrases requested in the
KWallet first, falling back to pinentry only if not found. The user is
given the option to store it in the KWallet afterwards. Negative answers
to this are also stored in the KWallet to avoid asking each time.
pinentry-kwallet (like other pinentry variants) talks a simplified subset
of the regular Assuan protocol on stdio; all commands, even unknown ones,
are passed through to a pinentry co-process during run-time, even if the
latter is never used. It accepts the same options as pinentry, even unk-
nown ones, because it is designed to plug in. As an exception, -q makes
pinentry-kwallet more quiet (suppress warnings on stderr), and -V
displays the version on stderr (unless -q).
pinentry-kwallet attempts sophisticated error handling: if an error di-
alogue is displayed, an internal counter is increased. If the counter
reaches 2, the value stored in the KWallet is ignored, and the user is
asked anew. The counter is stored in the KWallet, which is suboptimal but
necessary, because gpg2(1) does not re-use the Assuan sessions, instead
spawning a new pinentry-kwallet each time a passphrase is required (rath-
er stupid). Error counters are valid for 15 seconds since their last in-
creasement.
pinentry-kwallet exits 1 if it is called recursively, 0 if help or ver-
sion information are requested, and return codes do not matter in any
other cases because errors are signalled in-band. It will exit 0 after
the Assuan session is terminated.
DISPLAY The X11 display to use for child processes. If not set,
pinentry-kwallet will immediately replace itself with the slave
PINENTRY programme to use.
GPG_TERM Terminal type of the current tty.
GPG_TTY The current terminal.
PINENTRY The pinentry programme to use. Default: "pinentry"
date(1), gpg-agent(1), gpg2(1), kwalletcli(1), kwalletcli_getpin(1),
mksh(1), pinentry-curses(1), pinentry-gtk-2(1), pinentry-qt(1),
pinentry-x11(1)
pinentry-kwallet was written by Thorsten Glaser <tg@mirbsd.org> mostly
for tarent GmbH.
Some newer pinentry features, such as three-button operation, are not
supported yet.
Some commands, such as version inquiry, as passed through to the pinentry
coprocess indiscriminately, which may lead to strange results, should the
protocol change or extend.
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