Is there a tty-only pinentry variant available for Cygwin?

[Brian Inglis]

On 2026-05-31 06:12, Andrey Repin via Cygwin wrote:
> Greetings, All!
> 
> I've started to work from home, and connecting to my work laptop via SSH and
> Deskflow (Synergy).
> It works fine except two things. One if that docker desktop is unable to pull
> layers when inside the ssh session, and another one is that when I pull from
> remote GIT repo, git calls to pass to retrieve stored passwords.Which in turn
> calls to pinentry through gpg. Which is trying to display the GUI dialog in a
> headless session.
> Is there a ncurses or tty pinentry variant available for Cygwin?

pinentry-w32 (obsolete) -> pinentry	GnuPG password dialog (terminal)
pinentry-emacs				GnuPG password dialog (emacs)
pinentry-gnome3				GnuPG password dialog (GNOME,MATE)
pinentry-gtk2				GnuPG password dialog (GTK 2)
pinentry-qt3 (obsolete) -> pinentry-qt	GnuPG password dialog (Qt)
pinentry-qt4 (obsolete) -> pinentry-qt 	GnuPG password dialog (Qt)

Make sure DISPLAY is unset or no binaries other than pinentry{,-w32} exist; 
curses is the fallback for the GUI binaries.

-- 
Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis              Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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