Hey Guys,

I just inherited this Perl script from a former coworker. It works fine if I run it from my account using: sudo perl decrypt.pl foo.pgp bar.txt

If I do a sudo su - root and type: perl decrypt.pl foo.pgp bar.txt

It fails with this error: Use of uninitialized value $plaintext[0] in print at decrypt.pl line 23, <$ciphertext_fh> line 2486. 

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use Crypt::GPG;
use Data::Dumper;

my $gpg = new Crypt::GPG;
$gpg->gpgbin('/usr/bin/gpg');
$gpg->secretkey('xxxxxxxxxx');
$gpg->passphrase('xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx');

my $inputfile = shift;
my $outputfile = shift;

open my $ciphertext_fh, '<', $inputfile or die "couldn't open $inputfi
+le: $!";
open my $output_fh, '>', $outputfile or die "couldn't open $outputfile
+ for writing: $!";

my @ciphertext = <$ciphertext_fh>;
my (@plaintext) = $gpg->decrypt(\@ciphertext) or die "didn't work: $!"
+;

print $output_fh @plaintext;

close $ciphertext_fh;
close $output_fh;

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Thoughts??

In reply to Script works when run with sudo, but not when run directly as root...? by bmalnad

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