From 49af92e1a8fb3c3928a8b2e5ebc67e60cb927beb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jaromil Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 01:35:29 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] added documentation about pinentry to manual, fix #115 --- doc/tomb.1 | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/tomb.1 b/doc/tomb.1 index 09fa0a2..9449f5a 100644 --- 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