tadded documentation about pinentry to manual, fix #115 - tomb - the crypto undertaker
HTML git clone git://parazyd.org/tomb.git
DIR Log
DIR Files
DIR Refs
DIR README
DIR LICENSE
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DIR commit 49af92e1a8fb3c3928a8b2e5ebc67e60cb927beb
DIR parent 3d29d6a422531d2bb635b25d0c9327ddc644d41c
HTML Author: Jaromil <jaromil@dyne.org>
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 01:35:29 +0200
added documentation about pinentry to manual, fix #115
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DIR diff --git a/doc/tomb.1 b/doc/tomb.1
t@@ -291,6 +291,15 @@ whole system's security: just add such a line to \fI/etc/sudoers\fR:
username ALL=NOPASSWD: /usr/local/bin/tomb
.EE
+Password input is handled by the pinentry program: it can be text
+based or graphical and is usually configured with a symlink. When
+using Tomb in X11 it is better to use a graphical pinentry-gtk2 or
+pinentry-qt because it helps preventing keylogging by other X
+clients. When using it from a remote ssh connection it might be
+necessary to force use of pinentry-curses for instance by unsetting
+the DISPLAY environment var.
+
+
.SH SWAP
On execution of certain commands Tomb will complain about swap memory