Mailing List Archive: CGI encryption (again)

Thanks everyone for you earlier suggestions. I've tried several
methods, but the most promising was Jack McKinney's suggestion that I
create a directory for the web server user. This I have done, even
logging in as that user and importing the keys and everything from
the command line as the web server user ('nobody', in this case).
When logged on as 'nobody' I can create keys and encrypt on keys I've
imported. But as soon as i have my CGI script try it, it tells me:

gpg: fatal: ~/.gnupg: can't create directory: No such file or directory

I've checked to make sure that there's a .gnupg directory already,
and that it, and everything in it, is readable by 'nobody', but
nothing can get rid of this error in my web server log. This is
really getting out of hand. Any help would be appreciated.

Erik Wessel
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Big Brother tells me that Erik Wessel wrote:
> Thanks everyone for you earlier suggestions. I've tried several
> methods, but the most promising was Jack McKinney's suggestion that I
> create a directory for the web server user. This I have done, even
> logging in as that user and importing the keys and everything from
> the command line as the web server user ('nobody', in this case).
> When logged on as 'nobody' I can create keys and encrypt on keys I've
> imported. But as soon as i have my CGI script try it, it tells me:
>
> gpg: fatal: ~/.gnupg: can't create directory: No such file or directory

~ is a shell alias for $HOME. If this environment variable is not
set, then gpg will fail. Try running this cgi:

#!/usr/bin/perl

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print "<TABLE BORDER=1>\n";
while(($k,$v) = each %ENV)
{
print "<TR><TD>$k</TD><TD>$v</TD></TR>\b";
}
print "</TABLE>\n";
exit 0;

If you do not see HOME listed, then you'll probably need to set
it in your script. In Perl, do:

$ENV{"HOME"} = "/usr/local/www"; # or whatever your user nobody homedir is.

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