PKI --DN(1) strongSwan PKI --DN(1)

pki --dn - Extract the subject DN of an X.509 certificate

pki --dn [--in file] [--format format] [--debug level]
pki --dn --options file
pki --dn -h | --help

This sub-command of pki(1) extracts the ASN.1-encoded subject DistinguishedName (DN) of an X.509 certificate and exports it in different formats. This may be useful when strongSwan's identity parser is unable to produce the correct binary encoding from a string.

Print usage information with a summary of the available options.
Set debug level, default: 1.
-+, --options file
Read command line options from file.
Input file. If not given the input is read from STDIN.
Output format. One of config (strongSwan configuration compatible), hex (hexadecimal encoding, no prefix), base64 (Base64 encoding, no prefix), bin (raw binary data), defaults to config.

pki(1)

2015-08-06 5.9.13