Bash – How to export the pem file to pfx with a password on the command line

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I need to pass the password via the command line during the exporting in a bash script.

IBM has this on their website

openssl pkcs12 -export -in "$pem" -inkey "$key" -out "$pfx" -passout pass:pkcs12 "$pfxpass";

The above does not work for me.

The command below works but then you are prompted to enter and reenter a password.

openssl pkcs12 -export -in "$pem" -inkey "$key" -out "$pfx";

How can this be scripted?

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You need to use the -passin in your command, due to the key you've used in the -inkey needs a password. Also, the exported pkcs12 file will need a password, so you need to use -passout as well. So, assuming you'll use the same password for the imported an exported keys, you should use this command.

openssl pkcs12 \
  -export \
  -in "$pem" -inkey "$key" -passin pass:"$pfxpass" \
  -passout pass:"$pfxpass" -out "$pfx"

Hope it helps!

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Don't use a password. Generate a passphrase-less SSH key and push it to your VM.

If you already have an SSH key, you can skip this step… Just hit Enter for the key and both passphrases:

$ ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 2048
Generating public/private rsa key pair.
Enter file in which to save the key (/home/username/.ssh/id_rsa):
Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase):
Enter same passphrase again:
Your identification has been saved in /home/username/.ssh/id_rsa.
Your public key has been saved in /home/username/.ssh/id_rsa.pub.

Copy your keys to the target server:

$ ssh-copy-id id@server
id@server's password:

Now try logging into the machine, with ssh 'id@server', and check-in:

.ssh/authorized_keys

Note: If you don't have .ssh dir and authorized_keys file, you need to create it first

to make sure we haven’t added extra keys that you weren’t expecting.

Finally, check to log in…

$ ssh id@server

id@server:~$

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There are, I think, a few options available to you (none of which I've tried, since I don't have a Windows box to hand):

Make sure that you're running pageant (I assume you're not, since you didn't say you were) and that you've got that private key loaded.
Set up a connection in PuTTY named after your remote-server and specifying the private-key in the settings.
Set the GIT_SSH environment-variable to something that specifies the location of the private-key - I'd guess the contents should probably be something like plink -i c:/Users/myName/.ssh.

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