Re: Pinentry-mode loopback doesn't tell the user which PIN it's asking for

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On Tue,  5 May 2026 11:51, Jernej Jakob said:

> It works fine with pinentry-mode=3Dloopback, but it doesn't say which PIN

That is a kludge for unattended use.

> Is it possible to make gpg say which PIN it's asking for, the same way
> that pinentry does?

No, it does not know.  gpg-agent knows that.  Either you write your own
pinentry in a simialr manner as Emacs did it.  Or if you have no GUI,
just use a curses based Pinentry or the pinentry-tty.  The curses mode
is actually the fallback for the GUI pinentries if DISPLAY is not set.
You may need to redraw the screen, as it is the case with many curses
applications, but gpg supports this by emitting a PINENTRY_LAUNCHED
status line.


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner

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