From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 94 06:33:00 PDT
To: Erich von Hollander <cat@soda.berkeley.edu>
Subject: Re: how do i do this with pgp?
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Clearly you have not read the application note in the documentation
that came with PGP.  The appnote clearly states:

>         There is a better way of doing this in PGP 2.2, which is an
> environment variable called "PGPPASSFD".  If this is set, it means
> that the FIRST thing PGP will do is read the pass phrase from this
> file descriptor.  So, for example, one can set PGPPASSFD to "0"
> (zero), and then PGP will read the pass phrase from stdin as the first
> thing.

-derek

         Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, G MIT Media Laboratory
       Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB)
    Home page: http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/warlord/home_page.html
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