In case of "command get_passphrase failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device"

[0xjjpa]

For some reason I had to setup the GPG TTY variable on my bash when I tried to sign my commit (i.e. -S flag) because of passphrase, which is new to me since I usually have the passphrase prompt within my terminal, so who knows, might be a new GPG version.

Anyway, fixed it with:

GPG_TTY=$(tty)
export GPG_TTY

Might be worth adding it to the README.md under common issues and/or what not.

[benbieler]

Jup. Just had the same Problem. Fixed it as mentioned here. Thx

[pstadler]

Care to open a pull request? 🍻

[0xjjpa]

@pstadler #13

[johnmathews]

I have this problem also. Thanks for the fix.

[rayrutjes]

Still accurate ;)
Is there an easy way to remember the passphrase on OSX?

[roln]

thanks a lot ! Fixed it

[kavdev]

I ran into this when attempting to use gpg2 (with gpg-agent) when signing commits in git on WSL bash. Thanks for the solution.

Git's error output:

gpg: signing failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
gpg: signing failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
error: gpg failed to sign the data
fatal: failed to write commit object

[chenxiaojie]

thks

[zw201913]

thanks a lot ! Fixed it

[jgillich]

Also getting this in WSL after every system restart. Does anyone know what could be causing it?