pinentry-vscode

pinentry program for Visual Studio Code.

Configuration

VSCode Setting

Settings should be set for workspace.

• pinentry-vscode.PINENTRY_VSCODE_SOCKET: socket path that listens for password input requests.
  • for example, /run/user/1000/pinentry-vscode.sock

This value should also be set as environment variable PINENTRY_VSCODE_SOCKET for terminal.

{
  "settings": {
    "terminal.integrated.env.linux": {
      "PINENTRY_VSCODE_SOCKET": "/run/user/1000/pinentry-vscode.sock",

GPG Setting

Install socat program.

sudo apt update
sudo apt install socat

Create shell script.

/path/to/pinentry-vscode

#!/bin/sh
if [ x"$PINENTRY_VSCODE_SOCKET" = x ]; then
  echo "PINENTRY_VSCODE_SOCKET environment variable is not set" >&2
  exit 1
fi
exec socat stdio "$PINENTRY_VSCODE_SOCKET"

chmod +x /path/to/pinentry-vscode

Then, add following line to ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf

pinentry-program /path/to/pinentry-vscode