Add password to keytool command

Question

I've made a .bat file to get the SHA1 of my Android app so I don't need to type the command each time

keytool -list -v -keystore "Path/To/My/Key.jks"

When I run the bat file I get asked for the password. Is it possible to either put the password in the command e.g. something like --password MyPassword, or in the .bat file wait for the Enter your password line, and then send the password? I don't have any experience really with .bat files so I don't know if that's possible to do or not.

I looked at the --help for keytool and the only password flags I could see were for changing the password, not specifying it.

Answer 1

The keytool that ships with the Oracle JDK allows you to specify it on the command line with -storepass, you were doing keytool -help instead of keytool -list -help. (I suppose the Android version is the same.)

C:\>keytool.exe -list -help keytool -list [OPTION]...  Lists entries in a keystore  Options:   -rfc                            output in RFC style  -alias <alias>                  alias name of the entry to process  -keystore <keystore>            keystore name  -storepass <arg>                keystore password  -storetype <storetype>          keystore type  -providername <providername>    provider name  -providerclass <providerclass>  provider class name  -providerarg <arg>              provider argument  -providerpath <pathlist>        provider classpath  -v                              verbose output  -protected                      password through protected mechanism  Use "keytool -help" for all available commands 

Answer 2

Specify the keystore password using the -storepass option:

keytool <commands and options> -storepass changeit 

changeit being the default keystore password, but use whatever.

For example, to add a certificate using the default password:

keytool -importcert -trustcacerts -alias mycert -file mycert.cer -keystore .../lib/security/cacerts -storepass changeit