in reply to Re: GPG w/o modules question
in thread GPG w/o modules question

Thank you, I missed that section of the man page. Works great now, using --passphrase-fd 0. BTW, why should that option be avoided?

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Re: Re: Re: GPG w/o modules question
by sgifford (Prior) on Jul 19, 2003 at 16:12 UTC

    I have no idea; that's just pasted from the manpage. Maybe using the other two options makes error handling easier?...

Re: Re: Re: GPG w/o modules question
by fglock (Vicar) on Jul 20, 2003 at 03:10 UTC

    Because it is much safer if you enter the password yourself, instead of using a program that knows the password. The program can get broken and expose your password.