GPG Password Screen does not allow submitting password when using Git

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I'm using a GPG Personal Access token to sign my commits. The token is not expired (I checked this first), and has all the right repo scopes to allow for a commit.

When I pull using git pull <branch> --rebase, I get prompted by a GPG Password Screen as usual. I'm usually able to input my password here and submit, but now not only can I not submit my password (by hitting Enter), the password is also not obfuscated with asterisks.

I've tried running export GPG_TTY=$(tty), this does not fix the problem. I've included a screenshot below:

Any ideas why this is happening?

What terminal or emulator do you use? Try a different one. For example, use local console, ssh client, or different terminal UI. — Basilevs
– Basilevs, Commented Jun 18 at 21:01
Check redirects. If some kind of wrapper script is used to start git, it may use the input steam for a different purpose. When input or output redirect happens, password prompts are supposed to stop working. — Basilevs
– Basilevs, Commented Jun 18 at 21:02
@Basilevs do you know specifically what program prevents the password prompt from working if input/output are redirected? — dopatraman
– dopatraman, Commented Jun 24 at 2:08

Nimantha · Accepted Answer · 2025-06-25 02:55:05Z

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I solved the problem by switching my pinentry program to pinentry-mac . I installed pinentry-mac using homebrew and then changed my ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf config to

use-standard-socket
enable-ssh-support
default-cache-ttl 600
max-cache-ttl 7200
pinentry-program /opt/homebrew/bin/pinentry-mac

I still don't know why the original problem happened. I think it might be some bug that pinentry-curses has on mac, but I have no idea how to be sure. Running pinentry-curses didn't reproduce the issue :shrug:

edited Jun 25 at 2:55

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