On Fri, 7 Mar 2008, adamsh@fsfa.org wrote:

Hi Guys,

I have just purchased and installed an authenticated certificate for the mail server, but I am getting errors from dovecot.

My mail.err file is showing the following.

Mar 7 17:56:04 mailserver dovecot: pop3-login: Can't load private key file /etc/ssl/mailserver/mail.mydomain.tld.key: error:0906A068:PEM routines:PEM_do_header:bad password read

My dovecot.conf has the following set.

Uncomment these if using SSL

ssl_cert_file = /etc/ssl/mailserver/mail.mydomain.tld.crt ssl_key_file = /etc/ssl/mailserver/mail.mydomain.tld.key #ssl_key_password = #ssl_ca_file = /etc/ssl/mailserver/ca/mydomain.pem #ssl_verify_client_cert = yes ssl_parameters_regenerate = 168 verbose_ssl = no

I have been playing about with it all for about 3 hours now and would greatly appreciate any help ;)

It sounds like you encrypted the key with a password...you would put that as the ssl_key_password in the config above.

Andy

Andy Dills Xecunet, Inc. www.xecu.net 301-682-9972