Dear all, I have been trying to set up stunnel to encrypt a SMTP connection. The config of the encryption should be fine, I used it already on another OS, but I cannot get stunnel to start on my home server, based on OmniOS (kernel illumos), identified as "SunOS".

This is my config: ---- chroot = /opt/omni/var/lib/stunnel/ ; Chroot jail can be escaped if setuid option is not used setuid = nobody setgid = nogroup

;pid = /opt/omni/var/lib/stunnel/stunnel.pid

; Certificate/key is needed in server mode and optional in client mode cert = /opt/omni/etc/stunnel/mail.pem ;key = /opt/omni/etc/stunnel/mail.pem

[smtp-tls-wrapper] accept = localhost:11125 client = yes connect = ssl0.ovh.net:465 ;delay = yes ----

and the directories mentioned have the following permissions: ---- OmniOS-Xeon:~ $ ls -al /opt/omni/etc/stunnel/ total 28 drwxr-xr-x 2 root bin 5 Sep 24 23:26 . drwxr-xr-x 5 root bin 6 Sep 23 23:53 .. -rw------- 1 root bin 3050 Sep 24 23:25 mail.pem -rw-r--r-- 1 stunnel stunnel 3247 Oct 13 22:56 stunnel.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root bin 2997 Sep 23 23:53 stunnel.conf-sample

OmniOS-Xeon:~ $ ls -al /opt/omni/var/lib/ total 9 drwxr-xr-x 3 root bin 3 Sep 23 23:53 . drwxr-xr-x 4 root bin 4 Sep 23 23:53 .. drwx------ 2 stunnel stunnel 2 Sep 23 23:53 stunnel ----

The service is started from the SMF facility provided by Solaris/OmniOS/... that launches as root/root the following: /opt/omni/bin/stunnel /opt/omni/etc/stunnel/stunnel.conf

On execution I get the following error message: … Initializing service section [smtp-tls-wrapper] Certificate: /opt/omni/etc/stunnel/mail.pem Error reading certificate file: /opt/omni/etc/stunnel/mail.pem error queue: 140DC002: error:140DC002:SSL routines:SSL_CTX_use_certificate_chain_file:system lib error queue: 20074002: error:20074002:BIO routines:FILE_CTRL:system lib SSL_CTX_use_certificate_chain_file: 200100D: error:0200100D:system library:fopen:Permission denied str_stats: 9 block(s), 1032 data byte(s), 522 control byte(s) …

I must be overlooking something but I cannot see my mistake. Could you please help me? Thank you very much in advance!

Olaf Marzocchi