pgp-auto1

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pgp-auto [pgp options]

Overview

pgp-auto makes a connection to the passphrase pixie and then runs pgp in such a way as to ensure that it will read the passphrase from this connection rather than from the keyboard or the environment.

This is done by opening a unix-domain socket to the pixie, and then passing the file descriptor of the socket to pgp in the PGPPASSFD environment variable.

All command-line options are passed through to pgp unchanged.

Environment

PGPPASS

If this is set no connection to the pixie is attempted - it is assumed that pgp will use it as the passphrase.

PGPPATH

The PGP files directory. Depending on your installation the passphrase socket will be in a subdirectory .wrapper of this directory.

Files

$PGPPATH/.wrapper/pass-socket

The socket on which to find the pixie listening.