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