[Dovecot] problems getting password

[Mark E. Mallett]

On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 03:16:41PM -0500, Scott Klein wrote:
> I've got a signed certificate now, and since I installed it Dovecot dies
> when trying to launch with this error in the log file:
> 
> imap-login: Jan 07 15:15:27 Fatal: Can't load private key file
> <snip>: error:0906406D:PEM routines:DEF_CALLBACK:problems
> getting password
> 
> I know the passphrase my cert needs. Where can I tell dovecot that?

I don't that answer, but you can create a version of your private
key with the passphrase removed, e.g. via:

   openssl rsa -in whatever.key -out whatever.stripped-key

and use the stripped version (it will ask you for the passphrase).
This is not necessarily politically correct though.

-mm-