Fix Gpg Decrypt Error : Inappropriate ioctl for device
Posted August 3, 2022 by ‐ 1 min read
The Error
When you try to decrypt something using gpg and if gpg is reading the input from a pipe, like this echo "something encrypted" | gpg --decrypt
, it fails with the
following error
gpg: public key decryption failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
gpg: decryption failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
The solution
This happens because GPG does not know where to read the input from, simply set the env variable GPG_TTY
.
export GPG_TTY=$(tty)