Can't get private key with openssl (no start line:pem_lib.c:703:Expecting: ANY PRIVATE KEY)

Question

I have a .key file, when I do

openssl rsa -text -in file.key

I get

unable to load Private Key
140000419358368:error:0906D06C:PEM         


        

Answer 1

My two cents: came across the same error message in RHEL7.3 while running the openssl command with root CA certificate. The reason being, while downloading the certificate from AD server, Encoding was selected as DER instead of Base64. Once the proper version of encoding was selected for the new certificate download, error was resolved

Hope this helps for new users :-)