NAME

       pinentry-kwallet — kwallet-based pass-phrase dialog for use with GnuPG

SYNOPSIS

       pinentry-kwallet [-q] [options]

DESCRIPTION

       pinentry-kwallet  is a kwallet- and pinentry-based pass-phrase dialog for use with GnuPG.  It is intended
       to be called from the gpg-agent(1) daemon and not invoked directly.

       pinentry-kwallet replaces the regular pinentry-program stanza set in ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf and looks up
       the passphrases requested in the KWallet first, falling back to pinentry only if not found.  The user  is
       given  the option to store it in the KWallet afterwards.  Negative answers to this are also stored in the
       KWallet to avoid asking each time.

       pinentry-kwallet (like other pinentry variants) talks a simplified subset of the regular Assuan  protocol
       on  stdio;  all commands, even unknown ones, are passed through to a pinentry co-process during run-time,
       even if the latter is never used.  It accepts the same options as pinentry, even unknown ones, because it
       is designed to plug in.  As an exception, -q makes pinentry-kwallet  more  quiet  (suppress  warnings  on
       stderr), and -V displays the version on stderr (unless -q).

       pinentry-kwallet  attempts  sophisticated  error handling: if an error dialogue is displayed, an internal
       counter is increased.  If the counter reaches 2, the value stored in the KWallet is ignored, and the user
       is asked anew.  The counter is stored in the KWallet, which is suboptimal but necessary, because  gpg2(1)
       does  not  re-use  the Assuan sessions, instead spawning a new pinentry-kwallet each time a passphrase is
       required (rather stupid).  Error counters are valid for 15 seconds since their last increasement.

RETURN VALUES

       pinentry-kwallet exits 1 if it is called recursively, 0 if help or version information are requested, and
       return codes do not matter in any other cases because errors are signalled in-band.  It will exit 0 after
       the Assuan session is terminated.

ENVIRONMENT

       DISPLAY   The X11 display to use for child processes.  If  not  set,  pinentry-kwallet  will  immediately
                 replace itself with the slave PINENTRY program to use.

       GPG_TERM  Terminal type of the current tty.

       GPG_TTY   The current terminal.

       PINENTRY  The pinentry program to use.  Default: “pinentry”

SEE ALSO

       date(1),   gpg-agent(1),   gpg2(1),  kwalletcli(1),  kwalletcli_getpin(1),  mksh(1),  pinentry-curses(1),
       pinentry-gtk-2(1), pinentry-qt(1), pinentry-x11(1)

AUTHORS

       pinentry-kwallet was written by mirabilos <m@mirbsd.org> mostly for tarent solutions GmbH.

CAVEATS

       Some newer pinentry features, such as three-button operation, are not supported yet.

       Some commands, such as version inquiry, as passed through to  the  pinentry  coprocess  indiscriminately,
       which may lead to strange results, should the protocol change or extend.

Debian                                          November 19, 2020                            PINENTRY-KWALLET(1)