I am attempting to add a certificate to a keystore file using keytool.
For reasons I can't go into (bottom line - "that's the way it is"), the keystore file in question does not have a password on it - that may change, but right now it doesn't. And keytool won't let me add the certificate.

I've tried keytool -import -keystore <path to keystore> -file <path to cert file> and it asks for a password. Typing <CR> gets it to tell me that the password must be at least 6 characters.

Doing a keytool -list also asks for a password, but typing <CR> lists the entries in the file.

Is there something I can do with keytool to override the password check? I looked through the man page, but I may have missed something there...
Any help would be appreciated...

thanks,

nbc

there is a password option -storepass to pass the password on the command line and you can just use -storepass "" to specify a blank password.

I dont have a keystore created right now to try it but IIRC that should work



-Slimm