Create a password file in Terminal

The password file contains the password you specified when you created the keychain. Services use the password file to unlock the keychain that contains the SSL certificate.

  1. Log in to the server as root, locally through Terminal or remotely using ssh.

  2. In TextEdit, create a file and enter the password as you entered it when you created the keychain. Don’t press Return after entering the password.

  3. Make the file plain text by choosing Make Plain Text from the Format menu.

  4. Save the file, naming it cerkc.pass.

  5. Move the file to the root keychain folder, /private/var/root/Library/Keychains/.

  6. In Terminal, change the access privileges to the password file so only root can read and write to this file:

    chmod 600 /private/var/root/Library/Keychains/certkc.pass

  7. Log out from the server.

Restart the service that’s using the keychain.