Invoking GnuPG from CGI under Windows 7

robertcInSD robertc at broadcom.com
Thu Aug 9 21:07:33 CEST 2012


Thanks, this resolved the issue. I appreciate the fast response!


Werner Koch wrote:
> 
> On Thu,  9 Aug 2012 01:19, robertc at broadcom.com said:
> 
>> My question is two-fold:
>> 1) Is it Apache or GPG that is trying to write a temp file into the
>> system
>> directory?
> 
> GPG uses temporary fiels to communicate with the keyserver helpers.
> 
>> 2) Depending on the answer to 1), what can I do about it? If GPG is doing
>> it, can it be redirected to a temp directory where Apache has
>> permissions?
> 
> GPG uses GetTempPath() from the Windows API, which locates the temporaty
> directory this way:
> 
>    1. The path specified by the TMP environment variable.
>    2. The path specified by the TEMP environment variable.
>    3. The path specified by the USERPROFILE environment variable.
>    4. The Windows directory.
> 
> Thus the safest way for you is to set TMP.
> 
> 
> Salam-Shalom,
> 
>    Werner
> 
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