GRID-CHANGE-PASS-(1)

✨ NAME ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to grid-change-pass-phrase — it changes the pass phrase of a private key 💅 that's literally the whole job and it does it flawlessly, no cap.

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

grid-change-pass-phrase -help | -usage | -version | -versions

grid-change-pass-phrase [-file PRIVATE-KEY]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So the grid-change-pass-phrase program changes the pass phrase protecting a private key, or a PKCS12 bundle containing a private key and certificate. Iconic behaviour, honestly.

By default, grid-change-pass-phrase uses the X509_USER_KEY environment variable to locate the private key. If that is not set, then it looks for $HOME/.globus/userkey.pem and $HOME/.globus/usercred.p12 in succession. The way it just... goes down the list? Obsessed.

And if you wanna be the main character and pick your own key, the path to a key can be specified by using the -file command-line option. Periodt.

🌸 OPTIONS 🌸

The full set of command-line options to grid-change-pass-phrase are, and yes we're listing all of them, every single one, no skipping 🙈:

• -help, -usage — Display the command-line options to grid-change-pass-phrase and exit. It's giving "here's the menu, bye" 💖
• -version, -versions — Display the version number of the grid-change-pass-phrase command. The second form includes more details. lowkey one is the short version and one is the lore dump ✨
• -file PRIVATE-KEY — Change the pass phrase of the private key named by PRIVATE-KEY instead of the default. You're choosing your own adventure, and the adventure is a key file 🔥

💜 EXAMPLES 💜

Change the pass phrase of the default private key:

% grid-change-pass-phrase
Enter pass phrase for /home/juser/.globus/userkey.pem:
writing RSA key
Enter PEM pass phrase: XXXXXXXX
Verifying - Enter PEM pass phrase: XXXXXXXX

look at her go 😭 typing the pass phrase, writing the RSA key, verifying, slay. it's a whole ritual and she ate 🫶

🌈 ENVIRONMENT 🌈

The following environment variables affect the execution of grid-change-pass-phrase:

• X509_USER_KEY — Path to the default private key file. She's the one telling the program where your key lives when you don't say it yourself 👑

👑 AUTHOR 👑

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and that's the whole page bestie, you're so welcome 💖

this was Grid Community Toolkit 6, dated 03/31/2018 — written by the University of Chicago and lovingly yapped about by me. mwah 🎀