PINENTRY-GNOME3(1) General Commands Manual PINENTRY-GNOME3(1)
NAME
pinentry-gnome3 - PIN or pass-phrase entry dialog for GnuPG
SYNOPSIS
pinentry-gnome3 [OPTION...]
DESCRIPTION
pinentry-gnome3 is a program that allows for secure entry of PINs or
pass phrases. That means it tries to take care that the entered infor-
mation is not swapped to disk or temporarily stored anywhere. This
functionality is particularly useful for entering pass phrases when us-
ing encryption software such as GnuPG or e-mail clients using the same.
It uses an open protocol and is therefore not tied to particular soft-
ware.
pinentry-gnome3 implements a PIN entry dialog based on GNOME 3, which
aims to follow the GNOME Human Interface Guidelines as closely as possi-
ble. If the X Window System is not active then an alternative text-mode
dialog will be used. There are other flavors that implement PIN entry
dialogs using other tool kits.
pinentry-gnome3 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 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 op-
tion if you are debugging software using pinentry-gnome3; other-
wise you may not be able to to access your X session anymore (un-
less you have other means to connect to the machine to kill
pinentry-gnome3).
--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 pinen-
try.
--display STRING, --ttyname STRING, --ttytype STRING, --lc-ctype STRING,
--lc-messages STRING
These options are used to pass localization information to pinen-
try-gnome3. They are required because pinentry-gnome3 is usually
called by some background process which does not have any infor-
mation on the locale and terminal to use. Assuan protocol op-
tions are an alternative way to pass these information.
SEE ALSO
pinentry-curses(1), pinentry-gtk-2(1), pinentry-fltk(1), pinentry-qt(1),
pinentry-tty(1), gpg(1), gpg-agent(1)
The full documentation for pinentry-gnome3 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 Daniel Kahn Gillmor for the Debian
project, adapted from other pinentry manual pages written by Peter
Eisentraut.
01 Jun 2015 PINENTRY-GNOME3(1)
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