I remember doing doing something like this awhile ago: echo $password | gpg [...] there was also this article I saw recently which may be of some help: http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=10929 On 6/23/05, James M. Greene <hitokiri at acm.cs.umn.edu> wrote: > Hey there. > > I am a Linux user for the past four years, but I have just recently got > into truly tinkering and such. I have recently (i.e. today) begun playing > around with GPG signing. Now... I want to GPG sign a Linux RPM package > that I am rebuilding with my GPG signature. However, I am trying to > automate the process. The problem? Passphrase prompting. I have tried to > incorporate the redirection of stdin from a password file in my BASH > script that is executing the rpmbuild process, but it appears that adding > the --sign option actually implements gpg to prompt for the passphrase > instead of directly from rpmbuild. Is there anyway to kill this passphrase > prompting without giving the key a NULL password? > > Please let me know. Thanks in advance. > > > Sincerely, > James Greene > > ********************************************* > * James M. Greene - hitokiri at acm.cs.umn.edu * > * * > * Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) * > * Vice President, EE/CSci Bldg., Room 2-204 * > * University of Minnesota - Student Chapter * > ********************************************* > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >