commit 49af92e1a8fb3c3928a8b2e5ebc67e60cb927beb parent 3d29d6a422531d2bb635b25d0c9327ddc644d41c Author: Jaromil <jaromil@dyne.org> Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 01:35:29 +0200 added documentation about pinentry to manual, fix #115 Diffstat:
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diff --git a/doc/tomb.1 b/doc/tomb.1 @@ -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