man agpg (Commandes) - wrapper around gpg that provides passphrases for you

NAME

agpg - wrapper around gpg that provides passphrases for you

SYNOPSIS

agpg [ OPTION ... ] [ FILE ... ]

DESCRIPTION

When q-agent is running, agpg can be used instead of gpg, and it will try to get all necessary passphrases from the agent instead of asking you directly.

Since all arguments are handed off to gpg verbatim, the interface of agpg is exactly the same as that of gpg.

The following gpg options will influence the behaviour of agpg itself:

-u, --local-user NAME
informs agpg that it should provide the passphrase for the key indicated by NAME.
--version
agpg will output its version, too.
--passphrase-fd FD
prevents the querying of passphrases from the agent - you will have to provide the passphrases yourself on the given FD. Its usage with agpg is discouraged.

ENVIRONMENT

AGENT_SOCKET
agpg will use this variable to find the socket for communicating with the agent.

SEE ALSO

AUTHOR

Robert Bihlmeyer <robbe@orcus.priv.at>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2000 Robert Bihlmeyer

This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is no warranty; not even for merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.