[gnutls-help] No password prompt with csr generation when input is an encrypted pkcs8 key

[Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos]

On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 11:56 PM, A L <mail at lechevalier.se> wrote:
> I am trying to automate some of the key generation and request
> operations with certtool (gnutls 3.2.9).
> Normally omitting the --password from command line makes certtool prompt
> the user for a password, which is perfect in my shell scripts.
> It seems that when generating a CSR from an encrypted key, this does not
> happen.

Indeed, when the --template option is specified certtool goes to
non-interactive mode and will not ask for anything. There could be
some option --ask-pass to allow interaction for passwords during key
generation. I'll try adding that.

regards,
Nikos