PGP - Not fixed after all

[Anon]

Hi.

I've still got a problem with encrypting in PGP from PHP.

I am using a CGI file with the header

#!/usr/local/bin/php

$crypted and $plainTxt are names for files

The following code:

system("/usr/local/bin/pgpe -r 'RESNET <[e-mail]>' -o $crypted -a $plainTxt");

echos back as:

/usr/local/bin/pgpe -r 'RESNET ' -o /home/ambitire/reservationsnetwork_html/respix/264802c7c85ddce5ae5b1ccc48164f5dpgp -a /home/ambitire/reservationsnetwork_html/respix/264802c7c85ddce5ae5b1ccc48164f5ddata

and if I copy that to Telnet it works. Produces the file and all that.

But from the web page it doesn't work. It gives the error:

Warning: fopen("/home/ambitire/reservationsnetwork_html/respix/264802c7c85ddce5ae5b1ccc48164f5dpgp","r") - No such file or directory in /home/ambitire/reservationsnetwork_html/test/respag/encnew1.cgi on line 39

Meaning it didn't create the encrypted file.

I am at a loss as to why it should work fine in Telnet, but not from the web page. Now, prior to this problem, a similar thing happened and it was because I was running ordinary php3 pages. But I have changed to cgi - (and it did work!) - so, has anyone any ideas why it should not be working now?

Regards

Elizabeth

[dannys]

Do PHP & your webserver have the required permissions to read the file?

[Anon]

Hi Danny

Well I think so. I've asked the ISP to check it. The wierd thing is that it worked for a few minutes yesterday, then started not working again!

Would that explain why it works in telnet and yet not from the cgi (php) file?

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The user that runs the webserver that runs your scripts needs read and execute access to the PGP program and it needs read and write access to the directory where you are writing the files to.

If you login using telnet you are using a different username and therefore different access rights.