NAME
pinentry-qt - PIN or pass-phrase entry dialog for GnuPG
SYNOPSIS
pinentry-qt [OPTION...]
DESCRIPTION
pinentry-qt is a program that allows for secure entry of PINs or pass
phrases. That means it tries to take care that the entered information
is not swapped to disk or temporarily stored anywhere. This
functionality is particularly useful for entering pass phrases when
using encryption software such as GnuPG or e-mail clients using the
same. It uses an open protocol and is therefore not tied to particular
software.
pinentry-qt implements a PIN entry dialog using the Qt 3 tool kit, so
it is especially suitable for users of KDE 3. 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-qt 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
option if you are debugging software using pinentry-qt;
otherwise you may not be able to to access your X session
anymore (unless you have other means to connect to the machine
to kill pinentry-qt).
--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
pinentry.
--display STRING, --ttyname STRING, --ttytype STRING, --lc-type STRING,
--lc-messages STRING
These options are used to pass localization information to
pinentry-qt. They are required because pinentry-qt is usually
called by some background process which does not have any
information on the locale and terminal to use. Assuan protocol
options are an alternative way to pass these information.
SEE ALSO
pinentry-curses(1), pinentry-gtk-2(1), pinentry-qt4(1), gpg(1), gpg-
agent(1)
The full documentation for pinentry-qt 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 Peter Eisentraut for the Debian
project.
27 Jan 2005