Re: Verify key des3 password

[Charles B Cranston]

Gee, I was typing in the exact same solution!

NOTE THERE SHOULD NOT BE A DOLLAR SIGN ON THE SHELL READ STATEMENT!
(this had me going for awhile!)
Christian Hohnstaedt wrote:
if openssl rsa -passin pass:"$passwd" <oem2.pem >/dev/null 2>&1; then
  echo Password OK
else
  echo wrong password
  exit
fi
Regards

Christian



On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 04:45:26PM +0200, T. Valent wrote:
Is there a command line option for openssl to just verify a password for
a key?
I thought I could use a line in a script like:

echo Please enter password for key
read $passwd
       ^ NO!  just read passwd!

if openssl verifypassword -in MyKeyFile.pem -password "$passwd"; then 
echo Password OK
else
echo wrong password
exit
fi
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Charles B (Ben) Cranston
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