Question

I have search all over the web, but unable to find an answer, so I hope I can find one here.

I have a web application run on Windows and IIS written in Perl.
One of the scripts perfroms multiple tasks. One of them executes a command to encrypt a file. Here is the command:

my $cmd = "c:\\gnupg\\pub\\gpg -ase --always-trust --batch --passphrase mypassphrase --output $filename.pgp -r stuff $filename";

qx/$cmd/;

Unfortunately, this does not work.
The error I get is:

gpg: no default secret key: No secret key gpg: C:\\Dev\\somefile.csv: sign+encrypt failed: No secret key

When I am trying to run same command on same server from cmd it works fine.

From what I understand, when you run a scrip through web, it runs as anonymous user. So it does not see the secrey key generated as a local user. If I run the command locally through cmd it sees the secret key since it runs as a local user.

The question is: how do I solve this problem and make the scrip work?

Thank you,

-Andrey

Answer 1

I FINALLY figured out how to solve this problem.
The way I did it was:
1. Export both public and secret keys as a local user.
2. Import public key using web perl script.
my $cmd = “c:\gnupg\pub\gpg –import c:\public.key”;
qx/$cmd/;
3. Do same to inport the secret key.

I have to run the script once for each key so that the keys are created for web server user.
After that my application started to worked flawlessly!