Help! Please with decryption failed: No secret key (gpg in batch mode)

[Joseph Oreste Bruni]

Your automated process is not running with the same home directory as  
your login shell.

-Joe



On Apr 29, 2009, at 8:24 AM, Schrago, Gerard wrote:

>
> Hi all,
>
> Sorry to insist but I really need someone that can answer my question.
> Why a running process cannot decrypt a file while the very same  
> shell script invoked within a ssh session does it?
> Please!
>
> With my best regards.
> Gerard.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Schrago, Gerard
> Sent: mardi, 28. avril 2009 17:19
> To: 'gnupg-users at gnupg.org'
> Subject: Help with GPG in batch mode
>
> Hi all,
>
> Help needed in the following issue; I hope not to bother anyone but  
> I need an advise from an expert.
> If the verbose provided by the --debug-level guru would be of some  
> help I can send it in a further mail.
>
> I have to use GnuPG in batch mode to enable a running process to  
> decrypt encrypted file.
> If I run the shell script through ssh (with the specific user that  
> was previously used to set the keys and has its proper .gnupg  
> directory) this works fine despite the following warning:
> WARNING: message was not integrity protected.
> But if I have the running process invoking the very same script, the  
> response is:
> gpg: encrypted with RSA key, ID 911633C3
> gpg: decryption failed: No secret key
> I have then tried to modify the script to define home directory  
> using --homedir and I got the following:
> gpg: WARNING: unsafe permissions on homedir `/home/superagt/'"
> gpg: keyring `/home/superagt//secring.gpg' created
> gpg: keyring `/home/superagt//pubring.gpg' created
> gpg: encrypted with RSA key, ID 911633C3
> gpg: decryption failed: No secret key
> It is to note that I see neither in /home/superagt/ nor in /home/ 
> superagt/.gnupg/ the secring.gpg pubring.gpg announced.
> Thanks per advance for your help and support.
>
> With my best regards.
>
> Gérard Schrago
>
>
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