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FISHFISH

Posted 5/13/2008 4:53:29 PM

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I want to be able to write a script that will connect to a server to retrieve an encrypted file. I want it to decrypt the file without expecting manual entry of the pass phrase. Initially, the file wasn't being decrypted but I soon found out that if I renamed it to include the .pgp extension, then it would try to decrypt but it gets stuck when it's waiting on the pass phrase. When I created the key pair, I did not elect to save the pass phrase. If I had, would it have worked? Is this the only way it will work or can I supply the pass phrase in the script? How can I go back and 'save' the pass phrase if it can't be included in the script?

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