gpg ecrypt / decrypt on Redhat 8
 

Hi,

i am upgrading my redhat 6 to redhat 8. On redhat 6 i was using this code to decrypt the gpg file now with same code do not work on redhat 8.

Redhat 6: NO ISSUE
cat /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.10 (Santiago)
gpg --version
gpg (GnuPG) 2.0.14

command to decrypt on redhat
/usr/bin/gpg2 --armor --batch --passphrase-file $HOME/.gnupg/passphrase.asc \
--status-file $HOME/FILES/new-test-file.log \
--output $HOME/NEW-KEY-FILES/test_key_001.txt \
--decrypt $HOME/NEW-KEY-FILES/test_key_001.txt.pgp

Redhat 8: ISSUE
Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 8.5 (Ootpa)
gpg --version
gpg (GnuPG) 2.2.20

command to decrypt

/usr/bin/gpg2 --armor --batch --pinentry-mode loopback --passphrase-file $HOME/.gnupg/passphrase.asc \
--status-file $HOME/FILES/new-test-file.log \
--output $HOME/NEW-KEY-FILES/test_key_001.txt \
--decrypt $HOME/NEW-KEY-FILES/test_key_001.txt.pgp

gpg: encrypted with 2048-bit RSA key, ID keyxxxx, created 2022-03-24
"key (Decrypt files) "
gpg: handle plaintext failed: General error

Anyone is having this issue please help.

Thank you very much!

Your two commands don't match, and you don't say what happens if you run the first command for RH6 on the RH8 server. Also, in doing a small bit of research, your error indicates some sort of file-name problem. The gpg program doesn't expand variables...have you tried putting in the entire filename, rather than just "$HOME/..."??

Also, have you contacted Red Hat support? You're using RHEL6 and RHEL8...you're PAYING for support, right??