Hello. Is there a way to remove the passphrase from a certificate considering it has already been issued and activated by a CA?
I mean, what happens now is that I’ve purchased a certificate with a CA from Namecheap and activate it, they issued me a few certificate files which I combined and properly set it up on my nginx server, however, every time I have to restart nginx I’m asked for the passphrase
What I don’t’ understand is that I’ve executed the command which removes the passphrase from the certificate before submitting its CSR to the CA…
Is there a way I can safely remove the passphrase from my certificate considering it was already issued by the CA and is active on my server? Thanks in advance.
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The passphrase is not on the certificate or CSR, so you never removed anything. It is on the key file. <br> <br>openssl rsa -in /path/to/keyfile out -/path/to/keyfile.decrypted <br> <br>will do what you want.
Hey gparent. Thanks for your help. <br> <br>Unfortunately it didn’t work for me. My serve key is stored in etc/nginx/ssl/, let’s say it is called example.com.key, so I’ve tried to remove the passphrase from it using the command you suggested such as: <br> <br>openssl rsa -in /etc/nginx/ssl/example.com.key out -/etc/nginx/ssl/example.com.key.decrypted <br> <br>Could you please tell me if is it right? <br> <br>I’ve restart nginx after executing the command but I’m still being asked for the passphrase.
@Adriano: You then either need to point to the new <code>/etc/nginx/ssl/example.com.key.decrypted</code> file in the Nginx configuration or move the password encrypted key out of the way and rename the decrypted file to <code>/etc/nginx/ssl/example.com.key</code>
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