issue with rsa -in user.key -pubout > user.pub

[praxpk]

Hello,

I'm a complete newbie (you can call me a noob). I am not a programmer but trying to learn things. I have a website on a shared hosting platform (bluehost) and I'm trying this out as I have no access to root to get myself a letsencrypt ssl.

I tried running the second command on my server using putty and this is what I got

OpenSSL> rsa -in user.key -pubout > user.pub unknown option > rsa [options] outfile where options are -inform arg input format - one of DER NET PEM -outform arg output format - one of DER NET PEM -in arg input file -sgckey Use IIS SGC key format -passin arg input file pass phrase source -out arg output file -passout arg output file pass phrase source -des encrypt PEM output with cbc des -des3 encrypt PEM output with ede cbc des using 168 bit key -aes128, -aes192, -aes256 encrypt PEM output with cbc aes -text print the key in text -noout don't print key out -modulus print the RSA key modulus -check verify key consistency -pubin expect a public key in input file -pubout output a public key -engine e use engine e, possibly a hardware device. error in rsa OpenSSL>

Please help..

[diafygi]

It should be

openssl rsa -in user.key -pubout > user.pub

not

OpenSSL> rsa -in user.key -pubout > user.pub