openssl command fail on one windows machine in GitBash window while works on another

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This command fails on one Windows machine in git bash session, while on the other machine it work fine.

auser@pc MINGW64 /c/Developer/TEMP/openssltest
$ echo "Hi Alice!" | openssl rsautl -encrypt -inkey /c/Developer/TEMP/openssltest/pub2.pem --pubin
Can't open /c/Developer/TEMP/openssltest/pub2.pem for reading, No such file or directory
15844:error:02001003:system library:fopen:No such process:../openssl-1.1.1k/crypto/bio/bss_file.c:69:fopen('/c/Developer/TEMP/openssltest/pub2.pem','r')
15844:error:2006D080:BIO routines:BIO_new_file:no such file:../openssl-1.1.1k/crypto/bio/bss_file.c:76:
unable to load Public Key

auser@pc

This command work on a machine where it fails

$ echo "Hi Alice!" | openssl rsautl -encrypt -inkey ./pub2.pem --pubin

I do not have any issues on another machine. Where to look?

git-bash openssl windows
1 Answers

I would look into:

  • difference in openssl version
  • read access: cat /c/Developer/TEMP/openssltest/pub2.pem (or cat /c/Developer/TEMP/anyOtherFile)
  • difference in user for the shell session (env|grep -i user)

If you are running that test with a user account which does not have the right to read that TEMP folder, you would get that error.

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