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authorIngo Klöcker <[email protected]>2021-08-12 08:47:34 +0000
committerIngo Klöcker <[email protected]>2021-08-12 08:50:33 +0000
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agent: Make --pinentry-formatted-passphrase a simple flag
* agent/agent.h (opt): Change type of pinentry_formatted_passphrase to int (as for other flags). * agent/call-pinentry.c (setup_formatted_passphrase): Remove no longer needed translated strings. Write option without value to Assuan connection. * agent/gpg-agent.c (opts): Use ARGPARSE_s_n for oPinentryFormattedPassphrase. (parse_rereadable_options): Set option to 1. -- GnuPG-bug-id: 5553, 5517
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@@ -465,25 +465,10 @@ user input. The default value of 0 does not ask the pinentry to
timeout, however a Pinentry may use its own default timeout value in
this case. A Pinentry may or may not honor this request.
-@item --pinentry-formatted-passphrase @var{n}
+@item --pinentry-formatted-passphrase
@opindex pinentry-formatted-passphrase
-This option asks the Pinentry to use the mode @var{n} for passphrase
-formatting when asking the user for a new passphrase.
-Possible values are:
-@table @code
-@item 0
-Passphrase formatting is disabled. The option to change it is not shown,
-so that the user cannot turn it on. This is the default.
-@item 1
-Passphrase formatting is disabled. The option to change it is shown, so
-that the user can turn it on.
-@item 2
-Passphrase formatting is enabled. The option to change it is shown, but
-disabled, so that the user cannot turn it off.
-@item 3
-Passphrase formatting is enabled. The option to change it is shown, so
-that the user can turn it off.
-@end table
+This option asks the Pinentry to enable passphrase formatting when asking the
+user for a new passphrase and masking of the passphrase is turned off.
If passphrase formatting is enabled, then all non-breaking space characters
are stripped from the entered passphrase. Passphrase formatting is mostly