Configuring splunk Mobile Access Server -- How to configure a password for own certificate?

[Tarek1977]

Hello all,

I've configured the splunk mobile access server and put our own .pem files (password secured) into the SSL directory, as described in the documentation. If I want to start the server I get following error message:

Error: error:0906A068:PEM routines:PEM_do_header:bad password read

at Error (native)
at Object.createSecureContext (_tls_common.js:67:17)

at new Server (https.js:36:14)

at Object.exports.createServer (https.js:56:10)

at Object.checkServer [as check] (/usr/mcf/mserver/server/lib/util/port_checker.js:4:52)

at Object.<anonymous> (/usr/mcf/mserver/server/splunkm.js:41:21)

at Module._compile (module.js:449:26)

at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:467:10)

Is there an option to provide the password in the config_local.json? Here's the entry from the config_local.json:

...

"ssl": {

"cert": "/usr/mcf/mserver/server/config/ssl/xxx.net-key-cert.pem",

"key": "/usr/mcf/mserver/server/config/ssl/xxx.net-key.pem"

...

I've tried the option: "password": "xxx" , but it did not work. I didn't find any documentation for manually configuring this file. Thanks for your help!

[sni_splunk · Accepted solution]

Unfortunately, this option (passphrase for the private key) is not exposed via configuration, so it is not configurable yet.

I logged an enhancement request (MOBILE-991) for this and will post the update here once it gets fixed in our next release. Thanks.