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# System prepended metadata

title: Pinentry-mac

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# Pinentry

Pinentry allows VSCode and other GUI based application to prompt for password.

## Install

1. Install using Homebrew

```bash
brew install pinentry-mac
```

2. Use pinentry-mac with GPG

```bash
echo "pinentry-program $(which pinentry-mac)" >> ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf
killall gpg-agent
```