Aaron Kulkis wrote:

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David C. Rankin wrote:

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How do I provide a response to a program called from within a script from within the script itself? Sort of like a password chat program waiting on the prompt? Specifically, I have automated setting up a self signed server certificate for apache2 calling openssl from the script:

# Generating Private Server Key openssl genrsa -des3 -out server.key 1024

command << endflag everything written here will be fed to command on stdin until reaching THIS line endflag #this is called a "Here Document" # bash also has something called a "Here String" using <<<

man bash and then use the keyboard sequence: /here doc

Hope that helps, Dave

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# Generate Certificate Signing Request (CSR) openssl req -new -key server.key -out server.csr

# Remove Passphrase from Key echo -e "\n\t${lightblue}Removing Passphrase From Key To Eliminate PW Request cp server.key server.key.protected openssl rsa -in server.key.protected -out server.key

Each of the openssl requests ask either to create a password or to enter a password. Is the chat program the best solution?

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