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gpg-preset-passphrase
is invoked this way:
gpg-preset-passphrase [options] [command] cacheid
cacheid is either a 40 character keygrip of hexadecimal
characters identifying the key for which the passphrase should be set
or cleared. The keygrip is listed along with the key when running the
command: gpgsm --dump-secret-keys
. Alternatively an arbitrary
string may be used to identify a passphrase; it is suggested that such
a string is prefixed with the name of the application (e.g
foo:12346
).
One of the following command options must be given:
--preset
Preset a passphrase. This is what you usually will
use. gpg-preset-passphrase
will then read the passphrase from
stdin
.
--forget
Flush the passphrase for the given cache ID from the cache.
The following additional options may be used:
-v
--verbose
Output additional information while running.
-P string
--passphrase string
Instead of reading the passphrase from stdin
, use the supplied
string as passphrase. Note that this makes the passphrase visible
for other users.