Can't Run GnuPG from CGI Script

[Nathan Heagy]

You mean --homedir /var/www/data/. It'll manipulate the .gnupg part on
it's own. (What you've told it to do is create
/var/www/data/.gnupg/.gnupg)



Nathan



On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, pd wrote:

> I am getting the following error when trying to execute GnuPG from a cgi
> script.
>
> gpg: fatal: ~/.gnupg: can't create directory: No such file or directory
> secmem usage: 0/0 bytes in 0/0 blocks of pool 0/163
>
> Here is the gpg command:
>
> gpg --homedir /var/www/data/.gnupg  $armor --always-trust --yes -o- -r
> '987500C1' --no-tty --batch --encrypt /home/perluser/gpg/plain_text.txt
>
> Shouldn't the "--homedir" option take care of this error?
>
> It is being executed by user apache.
>
> It works fine from the command line.  It also works fine when executing it
> by a different normal user from the command line.
>
> Is anyone successfully using gpg in this way on a web server?
>
>
> At 06:55 PM 9/7/2001 -0500, you wrote:
> >pd, at 12:37 -0400 on Fri, 7 Sep 2001, wrote:
> >
> >    I have written the following two Unix shell scripts to be executed from
> >    perl scripts.  It works fine from the command line but when I try to
> > get it
> >    to execute from a web page it refuses.  gpg reports no error, it *acts*
> >    like it is running, there is no system error returned, but it does
> > nothing.
> >
> >You want to add options such as --no-tty and --batch
> >
> >You might want to look into the Perl module GnuPG::Interface instead of
> >using shell scripts; it could be much safer.
> >
> >--
> >Frank Tobin             http://www.neverending.org/~ftobin/
> >
> >
> >
> >
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>
> I have now installed Crypt::GPG and am using it to interface with
> GnuPG.  It still acts the same way when trying to execute gpg by user
> "apache" from the cgi-bin directory.
>
> Any help would be *much* appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Paul
>
>
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