Error: private key password verification failed

fredbovy

Hi There,

I have seen another topic with this title but there was no solution for me

I have restarted from scratch twice the procedure:
http://openmaniak.com/openvpn_pki.php

And I am using the same password for sure!!!

Any idea???

Tx
Fred

root@gateway:~# openvpn --config server.ovpn --proto tcp-server --script-security 2
Mon Dec 31 11:17:19 2012 OpenVPN 2.2.1 x86_64-linux-gnu [SSL] [LZO2] [EPOLL] [PKCS11] [eurephia] [MH] [PF_INET6] [IPv6 payload 20110424-2 (2.2RC2)] built on Mar 30 2012
Mon Dec 31 11:17:19 2012 IMPORTANT: OpenVPN's default port number is now 1194, based on an official port number assignment by IANA. OpenVPN 2.0-beta16 and earlier used 5000 as the default port.
Mon Dec 31 11:17:19 2012 WARNING: Make sure you understand the semantics of --tls-remote before using it (see the man page).
Mon Dec 31 11:17:19 2012 NOTE: the current --script-security setting may allow this configuration to call user-defined scripts
Mon Dec 31 11:17:19 2012 Cannot load private key file keys/static1.key: error:0906D06C:PEM routines:PEM_read_bio:no start line: error:140B0009:SSL routines:SSL_CTX_use_PrivateKey_file:PEM lib
Mon Dec 31 11:17:19 2012 Error: private key password verification failed
Mon Dec 31 11:17:19 2012 Exiting

maikcat

Mon Dec 31 11:17:19 2012 Cannot load private key file keys/static1.key: error:0906D06C:PEM routines:PEM_read_bio:no start line: error:140B0009:SSL routines:SSL_CTX_use_PrivateKey_file:PEM lib

usually you dont need to protect the servers key file with a password only keys
given to clients (for extra security),

Michael.