Symptom

in logs we see the following message: auth-daemon 2023/10/22 04:03:42 E! Cannot load Server Cert and Key. +tls: failed to parse private key auth-daemon 2023/10/22 04:03:42 Error initializing SAML. +tls: failed to parse private key auth-daemon 2023/10/22 04:03:42 E! Error Adding Feature Support. Exiting. +tls: failed to parse private key

Conditions

using SSO for FMC login. Issue was seen after an upgrade from 7.0 to 7.3.1

Workaround

convert their Server.key file to PKCS8 format. cd /etc/ssl cp server.key server.key.BAK openssl pkcs8 -topk8 -nocrypt -in server.key -out server_pkcs8.key mv server_pkcs8.key server.key

Further Problem Description