On Sun, 21 Aug 2011, Jerry Geis wrote: > Under Centos 5 I ran this command: > gpg --passphrase-file /home/myuser/pass_phrase.txt -c > ../Versions/program.x86_64.tgz > > and this worked fine. > > On CentOS 6 running the same command prompts me for the passphrase. > > Thats exactly what I dont want to have happen. I have the pass phrase I > want in the file. > > After some searching it says I need to start the daemon like "gpg-agent > --daemon" > take the output: > GPG_AGENT_INFO=/tmp/gpg-x4WH7K/S.gpg-agent:19156:1; export GPG_AGENT_INFO; > and use it - which I did. > > Then when I run my command above I still get prompted for the pass phrase. > > What am I not doing correct? > > I just want a simple phrase on a file that someone has to know before they > can extract it. Nothing special going on.... > > Thanks, > > Jerry > >From the man page: "...Note that this passphrase is only used if the option --batch has also been given."