> From: owner-openssl-us...@openssl.org On Behalf Of Mauricio Tavares > Sent: Friday, 02 November, 2012 16:53
> On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 4:23 PM, Ken Goldman > <kgold...@us.ibm.com> wrote: > > I create a self signed certificate using > > > >> openssl req -new -x509 -key ... -out ... -days ... > > > > It then prompts for the country, state, locality, etc. > > > > Is there a way to enter that data on the command line or in > a configuration > > file to avoid the prompts? I tried -config and a > configuration file, but > > that seems to just change the defaults. It still prompts. > Try something like: > > -subj "/C=US/ST=Florida/L=Waldo/O=Mythical Mad Monkeys, > GmbH./OU=IT/CN=$FQDN" > > as an argument to your openssl statement. as described in the manpage for req; or put prompt=no and values *instead of* prompts in the config file as described further down in the same manpage. Note: it doesn't make clear that if you use a config file with prompt=no and values, you can't override with commandline -subj. -subj only overrides prompt=yes. ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org Automated List Manager majord...@openssl.org
