[CentOS] Passing password to script for rpmsign of list of .rpm files

Sat May 21 15:52:30 UTC 2011
Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org>

On 05/20/2011 01:13 PM, Keith Roberts wrote:
> On Fri, 20 May 2011, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:
> 
>> To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org>
>> From: Ljubomir Ljubojevic <office at plnet.rs>
>> Subject: [CentOS] Passing password to script for rpmsign of list of .rpm files
>>
>> I am trying to automatize signing of unsigned .rpm files. My repo has at
>> least 50 x 3 packages.
>>
>> But I would have to type numerous passwords for each file. I can not see
>> hot to pass pass phrase to script.
>>
>> rpmsign --resign {--pass=??} <filename from list> ????
>>
>> Can someone advise me how to do that?
>>
> 
> Hi Ljubomir.
> 
> Not sure if this would work for signing packages, but I use 
> this script to start all services listed in a text file:
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> 
> # Start all services on machine
> 
> echo
> echo 
> "++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++"
> echo "Running script: $0"
> echo 
> "++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++"
> echo
> 
> # start all services listed in service-names
> xargs -a ./service-names -i chkconfig --level 2345 {} on
> 
> # list the status of services in service-names file
> echo "All services are now turned on (all those listed in 
> service-names file)
> "
> echo "for run levels 2345"
> echo
> xargs -a ./service-names -i chkconfig --list {}
> echo
> 
> exit 0
> 
> You may be able to modify the above script to do what you 
> need it to. xargs is in the findutils package:
> 
> Name       : findutils
> Arch       : i386
> Epoch      : 1
> Version    : 4.2.27
> Release    : 6.el5
> Size       : 662 k
> Repo       : installed
> Summary    : The GNU versions of find utilities (find and xargs).
> URL        : http://www.gnu.org/software/findutils/
> License    : GPL
> 
> Description: The findutils package contains programs which 
> will help you locate files on your system.  The find utility 
> searches through a hierarchy of directories looking for 
> files which match a certain set of criteria (such as a 
> filename pattern).  The xargs utility builds and executes 
> command lines from standard input arguments (usually lists 
> of file names generated by the find command).

I don't think he wants to find the files ... I think he wants to know
how to pass in a passwd for signature.

Can't you just do this in the script:

rpm --resign <options, names and crap>  <<EOF
<passwd>
EOF



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