Sean Conley wrote:
>
> The only way I have found to automate this process in a way that you speak
> of is to use expect. I had to do something similar where I wrapped the
> whole certificate creating process in a CGI using the Perl expect module,
> this worked quite nicely. If there is a way to feed openssl input from a
> text file I missed it and did alot of work for nothing on this project.
>
There are command line options to feed in passphrases from various
sources on most of the command line utilities. For example:
openssl genrsa -des3 -passout pass:hello
would set the passphrase to 'hello' whereas
openssl genrsa -des3 -passout stdin
would read it from standard input where it can be piped for example.
Steve.
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