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PIN entry for Debian
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This package and its sibling packages are intended to be used as a
pass-phrase entry dialog for the program gpg-agent (Debian package
gnupg-agent). To configure gpg-agent to use one of the provided
pinentry programs, put something like this into your
~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf:
pinentry-program /usr/bin/pinentry-qt4
You have the following pinentry variants to choose from:
/usr/bin/pinentry
Generic name that points, via the Debian alternatives system, to
the "best" installed PIN entry program. gpg-agent uses this by
default.
/usr/bin/pinentry-x11
Generic name that points, via the Debian alternatives system, to
the "best" installed PIN entry program with X11 support (that is,
the GTK+, GTK+ 2, Qt, or Qt 4 flavor).
/usr/bin/pinentry-curses
Text-mode PIN entry program that uses the curses tool kit (package
pinentry-curses).
/usr/bin/pinentry-gtk
Graphical PIN entry program that uses the GTK+ tool kit version 1
(package pinentry-gtk).
/usr/bin/pinentry-gtk-2
Graphical PIN entry program that uses the GTK+ tool kit version 2
(package pinentry-gtk2).
/usr/bin/pinentry-qt
Graphical PIN entry program that uses the Qt 3 tool kit (package
pinentry-qt).
/usr/bin/pinentry-qt4
Graphical PIN entry program that uses the Qt 4 tool kit (package
pinentry-qt4).
The programs pinentry-gtk, pinentry-gtk-2, and pinentry-qt* automatically
fall back to the curses interface if no X Window System is available.
So for example, if you frequently switch between text mode and KDE, and
you want to use both Mutt and KMail with GnuPG pass-phrase agent support,
then configuring /usr/bin/pinentry-qt would work. (In this case,
leaving it at /usr/bin/pinentry would also work, since pinentry-qt is
the preferred alternative overall, but if you prefer to use, say,
pinentry-gtk, then you need to set it up explicitly (or manually alter
the alternatives system; the possibilities abound).)
pinentry-qt4 is intended for users of KDE 4, whereas pinentry-qt uses
Qt 3, which is more suitable for users of KDE 3. pinentry-qt4 is not
maintained by the upstream authors of the other pinentry packages (yet),
but by the KDE team (for the time being).
Note that for the complete system to work, you also need to configure
GnuPG to use the gpg-agent to get the pass phrases, and you need to
configure your e-mail client to use GnuPG. These issues are not
covered here.
-- Peter Eisentraut <petere@debian.org>, 2008-04-20