<h1 id="pinentry-macos">Pinentry macOS<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#pinentry-macos"></a></h1>
<p>If you see the following during a GPG operation:</p>
<pre class="language-text"><code class="language-text">[GNUPG:] KEY_CONSIDERED [snip] 2
[GNUPG:] BEGIN_SIGNING H10
[GNUPG:] PINENTRY_LAUNCHED 87393 curses 1.2.1 - alacritty - - 501/20 0
gpg: signing failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
[GNUPG:] FAILURE sign 83918950
gpg: signing failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
</code></pre>
<p>It's because GnuPG is horrible. Switch to <a href="https://github.com/GPGTools/pinentry"><code>pinentry-mac</code> from GPGTools</a> and try not to think about it:</p>
<pre class="language-console"><code class="language-console">brew install pinentry-mac
echo "pinentry-program $(which pinentry-mac)" >~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf
gpg-connect-agent reloadagent /bye
</code></pre>

Pinentry macOS


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