Re: IPC::Run command is correctly constructed but does not have effect

[byrnejb]

I have this pinned down to this line:

422   $args->{keypass} = "'" . $self->getPassword("Private key passwor
+d",1) . "'"

If the "'" concatenations are removed and a pass phrase without spaces is entered then the openssl commands execute from the script. If spaces are used then the command fails. If the password input is escaped with ' ' then the command simply does not execute from the script but does from the command line.

How do I allow private key pass-phrases to contain blanks and still get the script to operate?

[Corion]

Whatever is building the command line is doing it wrong:

-passin pass:'test me'

... should likely be

-passin 'pass:test me'

For example, the following line building some command line will also not deal well with spaces in your password:

$cmd = "-des3 -passout pass:$args->{keypass} ".$cmd if defined($args->
+{keypass});

Also, this line:

my $common_args = "-$args->{digest} -days $args->{days} ".
" -key $cakey -passin pass:$args->{keypass}";

As a general rule, if it doesn't work on the command line/shell prompt, there is very little that IPC::Run can do to make it work either.