For anybody who cares I found the problem with the command below, the
environment of the webserver user was set to the environment of the user
who started it, so it could not find the ~/.gnupg directory so I added the
--homedir switch and all is fine. Thanks for the imput however I'll examine
popen further.
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 10:50:18AM -0400, Jeff Bearer wrote:
> I saw examples of how to encrypt data with GnuPG in the list archives
> but I'm having problems that aren't mentioned. I've installed the public
> key in the web server users key ring, and if I run the command as the
> web server user it works just fine. But when the script runs it I get
> nothing returned and no errors.
>
>
> $command="echo \"$plain\"|gpg -e -a --always-trust --no-secmem-warning --batch -r
>public_key";
> $encrypted=`$command`;
>
>
> I've tried with and without the --always-trust, --no-secmem-warning --batch
> in just about any order. If i try to write it to a file with -o the script
> does not create the file and there is still no error.
>
> I'm assuming that STDOUT is returned to $encrypted with the backtick operator,
> how to I see what STDERR of gpg command is? I figure there has to be something
> there. The only thing I can figure is that the environment for the web server
> is different than when you su to the web server user. and that's messing things up.
>
> Any help is appreciated, Thanks.
>
>
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