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<liclass="toctree-l1"><aclass="reference internal"href="acme_account_module.html">community.crypto.acme_account module – Create, modify or delete ACME accounts</a></li>
<liclass="toctree-l1"><aclass="reference internal"href="acme_account_info_module.html">community.crypto.acme_account_info module – Retrieves information on ACME accounts</a></li>
<liclass="toctree-l1"><aclass="reference internal"href="acme_certificate_module.html">community.crypto.acme_certificate module – Create SSL/TLS certificates with the ACME protocol</a></li>
<liclass="toctree-l1"><aclass="reference internal"href="acme_certificate_revoke_module.html">community.crypto.acme_certificate_revoke module – Revoke certificates with the ACME protocol</a></li>
<liclass="toctree-l1"><aclass="reference internal"href="acme_challenge_cert_helper_module.html">community.crypto.acme_challenge_cert_helper module – Prepare certificates required for ACME challenges such as <codeclass="docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">tls-alpn-01</span></code></a></li>
<liclass="toctree-l1"><aclass="reference internal"href="acme_inspect_module.html">community.crypto.acme_inspect module – Send direct requests to an ACME server</a></li>
<liclass="toctree-l1"><aclass="reference internal"href="certificate_complete_chain_module.html">community.crypto.certificate_complete_chain module – Complete certificate chain given a set of untrusted and root certificates</a></li>
<liclass="toctree-l1"><aclass="reference internal"href="ecs_certificate_module.html">community.crypto.ecs_certificate module – Request SSL/TLS certificates with the Entrust Certificate Services (ECS) API</a></li>
<liclass="toctree-l1"><aclass="reference internal"href="ecs_domain_module.html">community.crypto.ecs_domain module – Request validation of a domain with the Entrust Certificate Services (ECS) API</a></li>
<liclass="toctree-l1"><aclass="reference internal"href="get_certificate_module.html">community.crypto.get_certificate module – Get a certificate from a host:port</a></li>
<liclass="toctree-l1"><aclass="reference internal"href="openssh_cert_module.html">community.crypto.openssh_cert module – Generate OpenSSH host or user certificates.</a></li>
<liclass="toctree-l1"><aclass="reference internal"href="openssh_keypair_module.html">community.crypto.openssh_keypair module – Generate OpenSSH private and public keys</a></li>
<liclass="toctree-l1"><aclass="reference internal"href="openssl_csr_info_module.html">community.crypto.openssl_csr_info module – Provide information of OpenSSL Certificate Signing Requests (CSR)</a></li>
<liclass="toctree-l1"><aclass="reference internal"href="openssl_privatekey_info_module.html">community.crypto.openssl_privatekey_info module – Provide information for OpenSSL private keys</a></li>
<liclass="toctree-l1"><aclass="reference internal"href="openssl_privatekey_pipe_module.html">community.crypto.openssl_privatekey_pipe module – Generate OpenSSL private keys without disk access</a></li>
<liclass="toctree-l1"><aclass="reference internal"href="openssl_publickey_module.html">community.crypto.openssl_publickey module – Generate an OpenSSL public key from its private key.</a></li>
<liclass="toctree-l1"><aclass="reference internal"href="openssl_publickey_info_module.html">community.crypto.openssl_publickey_info module – Provide information for OpenSSL public keys</a></li>
<liclass="toctree-l1"><aclass="reference internal"href="openssl_signature_module.html">community.crypto.openssl_signature module – Sign data with openssl</a></li>
<liclass="toctree-l1"><aclass="reference internal"href="openssl_signature_info_module.html">community.crypto.openssl_signature_info module – Verify signatures with openssl</a></li>
<liclass="toctree-l1"><aclass="reference internal"href="x509_certificate_info_module.html">community.crypto.x509_certificate_info module – Provide information of OpenSSL X.509 certificates</a></li>
<liclass="toctree-l1"><aclass="reference internal"href="gpg_fingerprint_filter.html">community.crypto.gpg_fingerprint filter – Retrieve a GPG fingerprint from a GPG public or private key</a></li>
<liclass="toctree-l1"><aclass="reference internal"href="openssl_privatekey_info_filter.html">community.crypto.openssl_privatekey_info filter – Retrieve information from OpenSSL private keys</a></li>
<liclass="toctree-l1"><aclass="reference internal"href="openssl_publickey_info_filter.html">community.crypto.openssl_publickey_info filter – Retrieve information from OpenSSL public keys in PEM format</a></li>
<liclass="toctree-l1"><aclass="reference internal"href="x509_certificate_info_filter.html">community.crypto.x509_certificate_info filter – Retrieve information from X.509 certificates in PEM format</a></li>
<liclass="toctree-l1"><aclass="reference internal"href="x509_crl_info_filter.html">community.crypto.x509_crl_info filter – Retrieve information from X.509 CRLs in PEM format</a></li>
<liclass="toctree-l1"><aclass="reference internal"href="gpg_fingerprint_lookup.html">community.crypto.gpg_fingerprint lookup – Retrieve a GPG fingerprint from a GPG public or private key file</a></li>
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<h1>community.crypto.openssl_pkcs12 module – Generate OpenSSL PKCS#12 archive<aclass="headerlink"href="#community-crypto-openssl-pkcs12-module-generate-openssl-pkcs-12-archive"title="Link to this heading"></a></h1>
<p>This module is part of the <aclass="reference external"href="https://galaxy.ansible.com/ui/repo/published/community/crypto/">community.crypto collection</a> (version 2.18.0).</p>
<p>It is not included in <codeclass="docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">ansible-core</span></code>.
To check whether it is installed, run <codeclass="code docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">ansible-galaxy</span><spanclass="pre">collection</span><spanclass="pre">list</span></code>.</p>
You need further requirements to be able to use this module,
see <aclass="reference internal"href="#ansible-collections-community-crypto-openssl-pkcs12-module-requirements"><spanclass="std std-ref">Requirements</span></a> for details.</p>
<p>To use it in a playbook, specify: <codeclass="code docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">community.crypto.openssl_pkcs12</span></code>.</p>
<li><p>The module can use the cryptography Python library, or the pyOpenSSL Python library. By default, it tries to detect which one is available, assuming none of the <codeclass="ansible-option docutils literal notranslate"><strong><aclass="reference internal"href="#ansible-collections-community-crypto-openssl-pkcs12-module-parameter-iter-size"><spanclass="std std-ref"><spanclass="pre">iter_size</span></span></a></strong></code> and <codeclass="ansible-option docutils literal notranslate"><strong><aclass="reference internal"href="#ansible-collections-community-crypto-openssl-pkcs12-module-parameter-maciter-size"><spanclass="std std-ref"><spanclass="pre">maciter_size</span></span></a></strong></code> options are used. This can be overridden with the <codeclass="ansible-option docutils literal notranslate"><strong><aclass="reference internal"href="#ansible-collections-community-crypto-openssl-pkcs12-module-parameter-select-crypto-backend"><spanclass="std std-ref"><spanclass="pre">select_crypto_backend</span></span></a></strong></code> option.</p></li>
<spanid="ansible-collections-community-crypto-openssl-pkcs12-module-requirements"></span><h2><aclass="toc-backref"href="#id2"role="doc-backlink">Requirements</a><aclass="headerlink"href="#requirements"title="Link to this heading"></a></h2>
<aclass="ansibleOptionLink"href="#parameter-action"title="Permalink to this option"></a><pclass="ansible-option-type-line"><spanclass="ansible-option-type">string</span></p>
<aclass="ansibleOptionLink"href="#parameter-attributes"title="Permalink to this option"></a><pclass="ansible-option-type-line"><spanclass="ansible-option-aliases">aliases: attr</span></p>
<td><divclass="ansible-option-cell"><p>The attributes the resulting filesystem object should have.</p>
<p>To get supported flags look at the man page for <em>chattr</em> on the target system.</p>
<p>This string should contain the attributes in the same order as the one displayed by <em>lsattr</em>.</p>
<p>The <codeclass="docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">=</span></code> operator is assumed as default, otherwise <codeclass="docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">+</span></code> or <codeclass="docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">-</span></code> operators need to be included in the string.</p>
<aclass="ansibleOptionLink"href="#parameter-backup"title="Permalink to this option"></a><pclass="ansible-option-type-line"><spanclass="ansible-option-type">boolean</span></p>
</div></td>
<td><divclass="ansible-option-cell"><p>Create a backup file including a timestamp so you can get the original output file back if you overwrote it with a new one by accident.</p>
<aclass="ansibleOptionLink"href="#parameter-certificate_path"title="Permalink to this option"></a><pclass="ansible-option-type-line"><spanclass="ansible-option-type">path</span></p>
</div></td>
<td><divclass="ansible-option-cell"><p>The path to read certificates and private keys from.</p>
<aclass="ansibleOptionLink"href="#parameter-encryption_level"title="Permalink to this option"></a><pclass="ansible-option-type-line"><spanclass="ansible-option-type">string</span></p>
<p><codeclass="ansible-value docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">auto</span></code> uses the default of the selected backend. For <codeclass="docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">cryptography</span></code>, this is what the cryptography library’s specific version considers the best available encryption.</p>
<p><codeclass="ansible-value docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">compatibility2022</span></code> uses compatibility settings for older software in 2022. This is only supported by the <codeclass="docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">cryptography</span></code> backend if cryptography >= 38.0.0 is available.</p>
<aclass="ansibleOptionLink"href="#parameter-force"title="Permalink to this option"></a><pclass="ansible-option-type-line"><spanclass="ansible-option-type">boolean</span></p>
</div></td>
<td><divclass="ansible-option-cell"><p>Should the file be regenerated even if it already exists.</p>
<aclass="ansibleOptionLink"href="#parameter-friendly_name"title="Permalink to this option"></a><pclass="ansible-option-type-line"><spanclass="ansible-option-aliases">aliases: name</span></p>
<aclass="ansibleOptionLink"href="#parameter-group"title="Permalink to this option"></a><pclass="ansible-option-type-line"><spanclass="ansible-option-type">string</span></p>
</div></td>
<td><divclass="ansible-option-cell"><p>Name of the group that should own the filesystem object, as would be fed to <em>chown</em>.</p>
<p>When left unspecified, it uses the current group of the current user unless you are root, in which case it can preserve the previous ownership.</p>
<aclass="ansibleOptionLink"href="#parameter-iter_size"title="Permalink to this option"></a><pclass="ansible-option-type-line"><spanclass="ansible-option-type">integer</span></p>
</div></td>
<td><divclass="ansible-option-cell"><p>Number of times to repeat the encryption step.</p>
<p>This is <strong>not considered during idempotency checks</strong>.</p>
<p>This is only used by the <codeclass="docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">pyopenssl</span></code> backend, or when <codeclass="ansible-option-value docutils literal notranslate"><aclass="reference internal"href="#ansible-collections-community-crypto-openssl-pkcs12-module-parameter-encryption-level"><spanclass="std std-ref"><spanclass="pre">encryption_level=compatibility2022</span></span></a></code>.</p>
<p>When using it, the default is <codeclass="ansible-value docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">2048</span></code> for <codeclass="docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">pyopenssl</span></code> and <codeclass="ansible-value docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">50000</span></code> for <codeclass="docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">cryptography</span></code>.</p>
<aclass="ansibleOptionLink"href="#parameter-maciter_size"title="Permalink to this option"></a><pclass="ansible-option-type-line"><spanclass="ansible-option-type">integer</span></p>
</div></td>
<td><divclass="ansible-option-cell"><p>Number of times to repeat the MAC step.</p>
<p>This is <strong>not considered during idempotency checks</strong>.</p>
<p>This is only used by the <codeclass="docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">pyopenssl</span></code> backend. When using it, the default is <codeclass="ansible-value docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">1</span></code>.</p>
<aclass="ansibleOptionLink"href="#parameter-mode"title="Permalink to this option"></a><pclass="ansible-option-type-line"><spanclass="ansible-option-type">any</span></p>
</div></td>
<td><divclass="ansible-option-cell"><p>The permissions the resulting filesystem object should have.</p>
<p>For those used to <em>/usr/bin/chmod</em> remember that modes are actually octal numbers. You must give Ansible enough information to parse them correctly. For consistent results, quote octal numbers (for example, <codeclass="docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">'644'</span></code> or <codeclass="docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">'1777'</span></code>) so Ansible receives a string and can do its own conversion from string into number. Adding a leading zero (for example, <codeclass="docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">0755</span></code>) works sometimes, but can fail in loops and some other circumstances.</p>
<p>Giving Ansible a number without following either of these rules will end up with a decimal number which will have unexpected results.</p>
<p>As of Ansible 1.8, the mode may be specified as a symbolic mode (for example, <codeclass="docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">u+rwx</span></code> or <codeclass="docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">u=rw,g=r,o=r</span></code>).</p>
<p>If <codeclass="docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">mode</span></code> is not specified and the destination filesystem object <strong>does not</strong> exist, the default <codeclass="docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">umask</span></code> on the system will be used when setting the mode for the newly created filesystem object.</p>
<p>If <codeclass="docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">mode</span></code> is not specified and the destination filesystem object <strong>does</strong> exist, the mode of the existing filesystem object will be used.</p>
<p>Specifying <codeclass="docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">mode</span></code> is the best way to ensure filesystem objects are created with the correct permissions. See CVE-2020-1736 for further details.</p>
<aclass="ansibleOptionLink"href="#parameter-other_certificates"title="Permalink to this option"></a><pclass="ansible-option-type-line"><spanclass="ansible-option-aliases">aliases: ca_certificates</span></p>
<td><divclass="ansible-option-cell"><p>List of other certificates to include. Pre Ansible 2.8 this parameter was called <codeclass="ansible-option docutils literal notranslate"><strong><aclass="reference internal"href="#ansible-collections-community-crypto-openssl-pkcs12-module-parameter-ca-certificates"><spanclass="std std-ref"><spanclass="pre">ca_certificates</span></span></a></strong></code>.</p>
<p>Assumes there is one PEM-encoded certificate per file. If a file contains multiple PEM certificates, set <codeclass="ansible-option docutils literal notranslate"><strong><aclass="reference internal"href="#ansible-collections-community-crypto-openssl-pkcs12-module-parameter-other-certificates-parse-all"><spanclass="std std-ref"><spanclass="pre">other_certificates_parse_all</span></span></a></strong></code> to <codeclass="ansible-value docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">true</span></code>.</p>
<aclass="ansibleOptionLink"href="#parameter-other_certificates_parse_all"title="Permalink to this option"></a><pclass="ansible-option-type-line"><spanclass="ansible-option-type">boolean</span></p>
<td><divclass="ansible-option-cell"><p>If set to <codeclass="ansible-value docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">true</span></code>, assumes that the files mentioned in <codeclass="ansible-option docutils literal notranslate"><strong><aclass="reference internal"href="#ansible-collections-community-crypto-openssl-pkcs12-module-parameter-other-certificates"><spanclass="std std-ref"><spanclass="pre">other_certificates</span></span></a></strong></code> can contain more than one certificate per file (or even none per file).</p>
<aclass="ansibleOptionLink"href="#parameter-owner"title="Permalink to this option"></a><pclass="ansible-option-type-line"><spanclass="ansible-option-type">string</span></p>
</div></td>
<td><divclass="ansible-option-cell"><p>Name of the user that should own the filesystem object, as would be fed to <em>chown</em>.</p>
<p>When left unspecified, it uses the current user unless you are root, in which case it can preserve the previous ownership.</p>
<aclass="ansibleOptionLink"href="#parameter-passphrase"title="Permalink to this option"></a><pclass="ansible-option-type-line"><spanclass="ansible-option-type">string</span></p>
<p><strong>Note:</strong> PKCS12 encryption is not secure and should not be used as a security mechanism. If you need to store or send a PKCS12 file safely, you should additionally encrypt it with something else.</p>
<aclass="ansibleOptionLink"href="#parameter-path"title="Permalink to this option"></a><pclass="ansible-option-type-line"><spanclass="ansible-option-type">path</span> / <spanclass="ansible-option-required">required</span></p>
</div></td>
<td><divclass="ansible-option-cell"><p>Filename to write the PKCS#12 file to.</p>
<aclass="ansibleOptionLink"href="#parameter-privatekey_content"title="Permalink to this option"></a><pclass="ansible-option-type-line"><spanclass="ansible-option-type">string</span></p>
<aclass="ansibleOptionLink"href="#parameter-privatekey_passphrase"title="Permalink to this option"></a><pclass="ansible-option-type-line"><spanclass="ansible-option-type">string</span></p>
</div></td>
<td><divclass="ansible-option-cell"><p>Passphrase source to decrypt any input private keys with.</p>
<aclass="ansibleOptionLink"href="#parameter-privatekey_path"title="Permalink to this option"></a><pclass="ansible-option-type-line"><spanclass="ansible-option-type">path</span></p>
</div></td>
<td><divclass="ansible-option-cell"><p>File to read private key from.</p>
<aclass="ansibleOptionLink"href="#parameter-return_content"title="Permalink to this option"></a><pclass="ansible-option-type-line"><spanclass="ansible-option-type">boolean</span></p>
<td><divclass="ansible-option-cell"><p>If set to <codeclass="ansible-value docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">true</span></code>, will return the (current or generated) PKCS#12’s content as <codeclass="ansible-return-value docutils literal notranslate"><aclass="reference internal"href="#ansible-collections-community-crypto-openssl-pkcs12-module-return-pkcs12"><spanclass="std std-ref"><spanclass="pre">pkcs12</span></span></a></code>.</p>
<aclass="ansibleOptionLink"href="#parameter-select_crypto_backend"title="Permalink to this option"></a><pclass="ansible-option-type-line"><spanclass="ansible-option-type">string</span></p>
<p>The default choice is <codeclass="ansible-value docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">auto</span></code>, which tries to use <codeclass="docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">cryptography</span></code> if available, and falls back to <codeclass="docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">pyopenssl</span></code>. If <codeclass="ansible-option docutils literal notranslate"><strong><aclass="reference internal"href="#ansible-collections-community-crypto-openssl-pkcs12-module-parameter-iter-size"><spanclass="std std-ref"><spanclass="pre">iter_size</span></span></a></strong></code> is used together with <codeclass="ansible-option docutils literal notranslate"><strong><aclass="reference internal"href="#ansible-collections-community-crypto-openssl-pkcs12-module-parameter-encryption-level"><spanclass="std std-ref"><spanclass="pre">encryption_level</span></span></a></strong></code> is not <codeclass="ansible-value docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">compatibility2022</span></code>, or if <codeclass="ansible-option docutils literal notranslate"><strong><aclass="reference internal"href="#ansible-collections-community-crypto-openssl-pkcs12-module-parameter-maciter-size"><spanclass="std std-ref"><spanclass="pre">maciter_size</span></span></a></strong></code> is used, <codeclass="ansible-value docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">auto</span></code> will always result in <codeclass="docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">pyopenssl</span></code> to be chosen for backwards compatibility.</p>
<p>If set to <codeclass="ansible-value docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">pyopenssl</span></code>, will try to use the <aclass="reference external"href="https://pypi.org/project/pyOpenSSL/">pyOpenSSL</a> library.</p>
<p>If set to <codeclass="ansible-value docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">cryptography</span></code>, will try to use the <aclass="reference external"href="https://cryptography.io/">cryptography</a> library.</p>
<aclass="ansibleOptionLink"href="#parameter-selevel"title="Permalink to this option"></a><pclass="ansible-option-type-line"><spanclass="ansible-option-type">string</span></p>
</div></td>
<td><divclass="ansible-option-cell"><p>The level part of the SELinux filesystem object context.</p>
<p>This is the MLS/MCS attribute, sometimes known as the <codeclass="docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">range</span></code>.</p>
<p>When set to <codeclass="docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">_default</span></code>, it will use the <codeclass="docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">level</span></code> portion of the policy if available.</p>
<aclass="ansibleOptionLink"href="#parameter-serole"title="Permalink to this option"></a><pclass="ansible-option-type-line"><spanclass="ansible-option-type">string</span></p>
</div></td>
<td><divclass="ansible-option-cell"><p>The role part of the SELinux filesystem object context.</p>
<p>When set to <codeclass="docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">_default</span></code>, it will use the <codeclass="docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">role</span></code> portion of the policy if available.</p>
<aclass="ansibleOptionLink"href="#parameter-setype"title="Permalink to this option"></a><pclass="ansible-option-type-line"><spanclass="ansible-option-type">string</span></p>
</div></td>
<td><divclass="ansible-option-cell"><p>The type part of the SELinux filesystem object context.</p>
<p>When set to <codeclass="docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">_default</span></code>, it will use the <codeclass="docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">type</span></code> portion of the policy if available.</p>
<aclass="ansibleOptionLink"href="#parameter-seuser"title="Permalink to this option"></a><pclass="ansible-option-type-line"><spanclass="ansible-option-type">string</span></p>
</div></td>
<td><divclass="ansible-option-cell"><p>The user part of the SELinux filesystem object context.</p>
<p>By default it uses the <codeclass="docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">system</span></code> policy, where applicable.</p>
<p>When set to <codeclass="docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">_default</span></code>, it will use the <codeclass="docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">user</span></code> portion of the policy if available.</p>
<aclass="ansibleOptionLink"href="#parameter-src"title="Permalink to this option"></a><pclass="ansible-option-type-line"><spanclass="ansible-option-type">path</span></p>
</div></td>
<td><divclass="ansible-option-cell"><p>PKCS#12 file path to parse.</p>
<aclass="ansibleOptionLink"href="#parameter-state"title="Permalink to this option"></a><pclass="ansible-option-type-line"><spanclass="ansible-option-type">string</span></p>
<td><divclass="ansible-option-cell"><p>Whether the file should exist or not. All parameters except <codeclass="ansible-option docutils literal notranslate"><strong><aclass="reference internal"href="#ansible-collections-community-crypto-openssl-pkcs12-module-parameter-path"><spanclass="std std-ref"><spanclass="pre">path</span></span></a></strong></code> are ignored when state is <codeclass="ansible-value docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">absent</span></code>.</p>
<aclass="ansibleOptionLink"href="#parameter-unsafe_writes"title="Permalink to this option"></a><pclass="ansible-option-type-line"><spanclass="ansible-option-type">boolean</span></p>
</div></td>
<td><divclass="ansible-option-cell"><p>Influence when to use atomic operation to prevent data corruption or inconsistent reads from the target filesystem object.</p>
<p>By default this module uses atomic operations to prevent data corruption or inconsistent reads from the target filesystem objects, but sometimes systems are configured or just broken in ways that prevent this. One example is docker mounted filesystem objects, which cannot be updated atomically from inside the container and can only be written in an unsafe manner.</p>
<p>This option allows Ansible to fall back to unsafe methods of updating filesystem objects when atomic operations fail (however, it doesn’t force Ansible to perform unsafe writes).</p>
<p>IMPORTANT! Unsafe writes are subject to race conditions and can lead to data corruption.</p>
<td><divclass="ansible-option-cell"><p>Can run in <codeclass="docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">check_mode</span></code> and return changed status prediction without modifying target.</p>
<td><divclass="ansible-option-cell"><p>Will return details on what has changed (or possibly needs changing in <codeclass="docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">check_mode</span></code>), when in diff mode.</p>
<dt><aclass="reference internal"href="openssl_publickey_module.html#ansible-collections-community-crypto-openssl-publickey-module"><spanclass="std std-ref">community.crypto.openssl_publickey</span></a></dt><dd><p>Generate an OpenSSL public key from its private key.</p>
<h2><aclass="toc-backref"href="#id7"role="doc-backlink">Return Values</a><aclass="headerlink"href="#return-values"title="Link to this heading"></a></h2>
<p>Common return values are documented <aclass="reference external"href="https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/reference_appendices/common_return_values.html#common-return-values"title="(in Ansible vdevel)"><spanclass="xref std std-ref">here</span></a>, the following are the fields unique to this module:</p>
<aclass="ansibleOptionLink"href="#return-backup_file"title="Permalink to this return value"></a><pclass="ansible-option-type-line"><spanclass="ansible-option-type">string</span></p>
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<td><divclass="ansible-option-cell"><p>Name of backup file created.</p>
<pclass="ansible-option-line"><strongclass="ansible-option-returned-bold">Returned:</strong> changed and if <codeclass="ansible-option docutils literal notranslate"><strong><aclass="reference internal"href="#ansible-collections-community-crypto-openssl-pkcs12-module-parameter-backup"><spanclass="std std-ref"><spanclass="pre">backup</span></span></a></strong></code> is <codeclass="ansible-value docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">true</span></code></p>
<aclass="ansibleOptionLink"href="#return-filename"title="Permalink to this return value"></a><pclass="ansible-option-type-line"><spanclass="ansible-option-type">string</span></p>
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<td><divclass="ansible-option-cell"><p>Path to the generate PKCS#12 file.</p>
<aclass="ansibleOptionLink"href="#return-pkcs12"title="Permalink to this return value"></a><pclass="ansible-option-type-line"><spanclass="ansible-option-type">string</span></p>
<aclass="ansibleOptionLink"href="#return-privatekey"title="Permalink to this return value"></a><pclass="ansible-option-type-line"><spanclass="ansible-option-type">string</span></p>
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<td><divclass="ansible-option-cell"><p>Path to the TLS/SSL private key the public key was generated from.</p>
