How could I ask it NOT to require a passphrase at all ?
Thanks,
Sandipan
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From: "Dr S N Henson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 3:38 AM
Subject: Re: obtaining input from a file or from the command line
> 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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