I created a CA cert following the instructions here: https://support.oneidentity.com/fr-fr/technical-documents/syslog-ng-open-sou... And the serverkey.pem is not encrypted, but syslog-ng is asking for a password when it starts up for the serverkey.pem. Any help would be appreciate Head of the server.key -----BEGIN PRIVATE KEY----- MIIEvAI.... syslog error: [2021-03-17T19:56:03.552322] Error setting up TLS session context; tls_error='system library:fopen:Permission denied', location='/etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf:21:2' [2021-03-17T19:56:03.552355] Error setting up TLS context; keyfile='/etc/ssl/certs/cert.d/serverkey.pem' [2021-03-17T19:56:03.552407] Waiting for password; keyfile='/etc/ssl/certs/cert.d/serverkey.pem' syslog-ng config: @version: 3.29 @include "scl.conf" source s_local { internal(); }; source s_network { default-network-drivers( # NOTE: TLS support # # the default-network-drivers() source driver opens the TLS # enabled ports as well, however without an actual key/cert # pair they will not operate and syslog-ng would display a # warning at startup. # tls(key-file("/etc/ssl/certs/cert.d/serverkey.pem") cert-file("/etc/ssl/certs/cert.d/servercert.pem") ca_dir("/etc/ssl/certs/ca.d")) peer_verify(optional-untrusted) ); }; destination d_local { file("/var/log/messages"); file("/var/log/messages-kv.log" template("$ISODATE $HOST $(format-welf --scope all-nv-pairs)\n") frac-digits(3)); }; log { source(s_local); source(s_network); destination(d_local); }; docker run command: sudo docker run -d --privileged -it -v "/data/syslog-ng/config/syslog-ng.conf:/etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf" -v "/data/syslog-ng/logs:/var/log" -v "/data/syslog-ng/certs:/etc/ssl/certs" -p 514:514/udp -p 601:601 -p 6514:6514 --name syslog-ng2 balabit/syslog-ng:latest -edv Thanks, Steven -- Steven La 408-503-0289 steven.la@datastax.com <Steven.La@datastax.com> | datastax.com