NAME
pgp-auto - run PGP with passphrase supplied by Pixie
SYNOPSYS
pgp-auto [pgp options]
DESCRIPTION
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.
SEE ALSO
pgp(1), pgp-pixie(1), pgp-decrypt(1), auto-pgp.el
AUTHOR
The Emacs Auto-PGP package was written by Ian Jackson. Copyright 1993-1994; for copying conditions see the GNU General Public Licence. This software is distributed as-is with no warranty.