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Hi,

I have created a windows service in Visual studio 2005 C++, which will encrypt a file and send it to a server using socket.

For this I am using OpenSSL, I am running in to following issues

1) I could not find the library method of OpenSSL which can be invoked to do the encryption, so I used System( ) to execute the command line OpenSSL
2) this works well in console application, but when I convert the application to windows service, System( ) is not executing
following gives me

_get_errno(&err);

'9' as the error.

Can someone suggest a way of executing OpenSSL using System( ) or even better the lib call for OpenSSL

Thanks in advance.
Vikas

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Does the service program have permissions to do that? You might have to have the service log in with an administrator account.

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Thanks Ancient Dragon

That was the problem, installed it from Admin a/c and worked just fine.

Thanks a lot :)

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