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Federated Matrix Identity Server
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Key path in config / no key generation #166

Closed menturion closed 5 years ago

menturion commented 5 years ago

I am currently trying to set up your identity server (v1.3.1) and stuck. Your Getting Started doc (https://github.com/kamax-matrix/mxisd/blob/master/docs/getting-started.md) says that ...

key.path will store the signing keys, which must be kept safe! If the file does not exist, keys will be generated for you.

However, when I just set the path to a folder your config checker throws an error on startup, saying ...

"Signing key file storage "pathtofolder" is a directory".

The key file does not exist.

Question: How can I generate the signing key(s)?

menturion commented 5 years ago

Got it. Had to add a folder path to a key that does not exist. For all who might stumble upon the same problem:

So instead of referencing an empty key folder like this ...

'[pathtofolder]/keys/'

one has to reference a key that does not exist, e.g. like this ...

'[pathtofolder]/keys/signing.key'

Then 'signing.key' will be generated on startup.

maxidorius commented 5 years ago

This is expected. The documentation specifically says "file", not "directory". If the path given points to a directory, then a file located at that path cannot be created, as it's already taken by a directory.

menturion commented 5 years ago

Once again thanks for your help!