Hey guys, i'm having a little trouble and wondered if you could help.

I'm creating a batch file that when executed will run a keytool to generate an SSL key. Running the keytool isn't a problem, however, once that command has been executed, you are then asked for a password, and further more, details of your name, location, etc. Does anyone know how to make the batch file enter values for each of the required fields? I need these values to be predefined within the batch file.

Hope you can help, thanks,

SEB

Does this tool has a command-line interface option? You could pass the values in as parameters to the tool itself.

Otherwise you could set environment variables to values that are predefined, using a "priming" batch script... Then read in those values...

The easiest way would be if the tool has a command-line interface:

mytool -name IR -location US ........ etc.

Ok, I think I've figured it. You are right with the command line interface.

I could have been more specific and said that it is the keytool that comes with j2sdk...

I'll have a play and see what happens - thanks for your suggestion, you've helped me out of this hole!

I've pretty much solved it, however, there's one thing i cannot figure out.

I've amde the script to enter all the values, however, you need to enter a password at the end, OR, press enter if it is the same password as the one given earlier. It is the same, so i need to make the script "press enter" for me. Does this make sense?

Seb

done :)

Glad that you got it figured out. :D