Pinentry

[David Wolfskill]

On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 11:00:46AM -0700, @lbutlr wrote:
> I ma trying to figure out why pin entry and pinetnry-tty are installed. If I try to remove it, I get a list of post that are to be deleted.
> 
> Installed packages to be REMOVED:
>         gnupg: 2.2.27
>         gpgme: 1.15.1
>         mimedefang: 2.83_3
>         mutt: 2.0.4
>         pinentry: 1.1.0_7
>         pinentry-tty: 1.1.0
>         spamass-milter: 0.4.0_4
>         spamassassin: 3.4.4
>         subversion: 1.14.0
> 
> I've looked through he config for all of these and not seen anything about PIN entry, and am wondering why it would be required to run any of these packages.

pinentry is (also) used to enter (e,g,) passphrases (as would be used by
gnupg).

> I cannot imagine any circumstances in which I would need to enter a PIN on a TTY and no one else could possibly do so.
> 
> I suspect mutt since it is relatively newly installed, nut I see nothing in the config that seems like it wold disable this. (Mutt is used as a convenient way to send html formatted mail of some system events), it is not used to access mail off the server and is only used by me to access mail on the server.
> ....

You may well need but a subset of the default options in that case.

Peace,
david
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David H. Wolfskill                              david at catwhisker.org
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