[openssl-users] scripting creating a cert

[Robert Moskowitz]

I am creating self-signed certs with:

openssl req -new -outform PEM -out certs/$your_host_tld.crt -newkey 
rsa:2048 -nodes -keyout private/$your_host_tld.key -keyform PEM -days 
3650 -x509 -extensions v3_req

Where, for example:

your_host_tld=z9m9z.test.htt-consult.com

Thing is that this then prompts for a number of fields:

Country Name (2 letter code) [XX]:
State or Province Name (full name) []:
Locality Name (eg, city) [Default City]:
Organization Name (eg, company) [Default Company Ltd]:
Organizational Unit Name (eg, section) []:
Common Name (eg, your name or your server's hostname) []:
Email Address []:

Is there some 'simple' way to provide these answers?  Like with env 
variables?

thanks