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I am following this blog to create a mdm server link.

In the 7th step they are stripping password from the private key by running this command 

openssl rsa -in key.pem -out private.key

But when I run this command on my terminal I am getting error

unable to load Private Key 
routines:PEM_read_bio:no start line:pem_lib.c:703:Expecting: ANY PRIVATE KEY

I am working on mac. All the steps before that worked fine. In the previous step they asked to enter passphrase I pressed enter without passphrase, is this the reason for this error.

Hope you understand the problem

Thanks

user2413621
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I pressed enter without passphrase, is this the reason for this error.

Yes, you are correct — since you didn't use a passphrase there's nothing to strip out in that step.

Unfortunately the tutorial failed to mention anything about that before you arrived at your conclusion. A passphrase shouldn't (normally) be necessary anyway, as the important private key extracted earlier should be all that you would need.

l'L'l
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  • name of the .pem is key.pem – user2413621 Jun 03 '15 at 05:56
  • I see, then you should already have the private key you need (`key.pem`). That tutorial is very badly explained, as It's way more steps than you should need to take for this type of task. – l'L'l Jun 03 '15 at 05:59
  • Can you pls help me how to solve this problem and what all steps to do? – user2413621 Jun 03 '15 at 06:06
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    [This guide is more straight forward](http://www.softhinker.com/in-the-news/iosmdmvendorcsrsigning), and there seems to be a similar question regarding the `private.key` as well. http://stackoverflow.com/a/10629174/499581 – l'L'l Jun 03 '15 at 06:11
  • i am still confused... can you pls tell what step to do instead of the stripping of password line. I cant figure it out. I am new to this. – user2413621 Jun 03 '15 at 07:06
  • Sure, which part are you stuck on, and are you following the original tutorial or the newer one. – l'L'l Jun 03 '15 at 07:07
  • Let us [continue this discussion in chat](http://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/79491/discussion-between-user2413621-and-lll). – user2413621 Jun 03 '15 at 07:07