[pyOpenSSL] setting the key password

[Jos Vos]

On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 03:05:43PM +0100, Niklas Saers wrote:

> I'm using SecureXMLRPCServer to do my XMLRPC communication via SSL. For 
> this I have a server.pkey and a server.cert, and when running the 
> application I get: "Enter PEM pass phrase:"   I want this to be a daemon 
> that runs on a server and starts thus I would like to set the password 
> without keyboard interaction. I've been unsuccessful at piping the 
> password in, and I was wondering if I could set a variable or if there 
> are other options available to me?

You have to change the private key part for that, as follows:

	openssl rsa -in server.pkey -out server2.pkey

And then use server2.pkey i.s.o. server.pkey from now on.

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