Importing encryption-settings definitions
About this task
To import an encryption-settings definition that has been previously exported, use the encryption-settings
tool with the import
subcommand. The subcommand takes the following arguments:
--input-file {path}
-
Specifies the path to the file containing the exported encryption-settings definition. This argument is required.
--pin-file {path}
-
Specifies the path to a PIN file containing the password to use to encrypt the contents of the exported definition. If this argument isn’t provided, then the PIN is interactively requested from the server.
--set-preferred
-
Specifies that the newly-imported encryption-settings definition should be made for the preferred definition for subsequent encryption-settings.
Steps
-
Use the
encryption-settings
tool with theimport
subcommand to import the definition to a file.Example:
$ bin/encryption-settings import --input-file /tmp/exported-key --set-preferred Enter the PIN used to encrypt the definition:
Result:
Successfully imported encryption settings definition F635E109A8549651025D01D9A6A90F7C9017C66D from file /tmp/exported-key