diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 987fbba820..bdd75de890 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -876,6 +876,14 @@ Objective-C, Perl, PHP, PLSQL, Python, Ruby, Salesforce.com Apex, Scala, Swift a
                                 <goals>
                                     <goal>sign</goal>
                                 </goals>
+                                <configuration>
+                                    <!-- https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MGPG-59 - once m-gpg-p 1.7. is released,
+                                         this should not be needed anymore -->
+                                    <gpgArguments>
+                                        <arg>--pinentry-mode</arg>
+                                        <arg>loopback</arg>
+                                    </gpgArguments>
+                                </configuration>
                             </execution>
                         </executions>
                     </plugin>