STEP-CA(1)

NAME
step-ca - an online certificate authority for secure automated certificate management

USAGE
step-ca [--password-file=file] [--issuer-password-file=file] [--resolver=value] [--help] [--version]

DESCRIPTION
step-ca runs the Step Online Certificate Authority (Step CA) using the given configuration. See the README.md for more detailed configuration documentation.

POSITIONAL ARGUMENTS

config

    File that configures the operation of the Step CA; this file is generated when you initialize the Step CA using 'step ca init'

OPTIONS

--password-file file

    path to the file containing the password to decrypt the intermediate private key.

--issuer-password-file file

    path to the file containing the password to decrypt the certificate issuer private key used in the RA mode.

--resolver value

    address of a DNS resolver to be used instead of the default.

--help

    show help

--version

    print the version

EXIT CODES
This command will run indefinitely on success and return >0 if any error occurs.

EXAMPLES
These examples assume that you have already initialized your PKI by running 'step ca init'. If you have not completed this step please see the 'Getting Started' section of the README. Run the Step CA and prompt for password: $ step-ca $STEPPATH/config/ca.json Run the Step CA and read the password from a file - this is useful for automating deployment: $ step-ca $STEPPATH/config/ca.json --password-file ./password.txt

COMMANDS

help, h

    display help for the specified command or command group

onboard

    configure and run step-ca from the onboarding guide

version

    display the current version of the cli

ONLINE
This documentation is available online at https://smallstep.com/docs/certificates

VERSION
Smallstep CA/0.15.15-1

COPYRIGHT
(c) 2018-2020 Smallstep Labs, Inc.

FEEDBACK
step-ca utility is not instrumented for usage statistics. It does not phone home. But your feedback is extremely valuable. Any information you can provide regarding how you are using step-ca helps. Please send us a sentence or two, good or bad: feedback@smallstep.com or https://github.com/smallstep/certificates/discussions