Re: [Monotone-devel] privkey packets (bugfix, 5753fc88)

[Alvaro Herrera]

Timothy Brownawell wrote:

> This is fixed in 5753fc88803f090d42d7e3a3360192b7edf0a7d9, so reading
> old privkey packets should now work. Note that this requires a password,
> so you need to either (1) read the privkey from a file, "monotone read
> privkey.txt", or (2) define the get_passphrase hook, so it doesn't have
> to ask you. (If you read the packets from stdin, it can't ask you for
> the passphrase.)

Huh, why not read the passphrase from /dev/tty?  It's certainly possible
to have stdin and the tty as independent.  (Not sure about Windows
though ...)

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