Confluent Install - Generated certs - What is the password

[adbdkb]

Confluent Install - Generated certs - What is the password

Describe the issue
I am installing Confluent on a sandbox and allowed the process to generate the required certs. Now I was to create topics using Confluent CLI and I passed the client.properties file for --config parameter. I tried "changeit" as password for the jks, but that is not working. I also tried blank password, which also gives a different error.

What is the default password for the certs generated by the process, so I can create topics using confluent-cli

[adbdkb]

This is the error I get when running /bin/kafka-topics - when I put "" for password

Exception in thread "main" org.apache.kafka.common.KafkaException: Failed to create new KafkaAdminClient
at org.apache.kafka.clients.admin.KafkaAdminClient.createInternal(KafkaAdminClient.java:587)
at org.apache.kafka.clients.admin.KafkaAdminClient.createInternal(KafkaAdminClient.java:516)
at org.apache.kafka.clients.admin.Admin.create(Admin.java:133)
at kafka.admin.TopicCommand$TopicService$.createAdminClient(TopicCommand.scala:253)
at kafka.admin.TopicCommand$TopicService$.apply(TopicCommand.scala:257)
at kafka.admin.TopicCommand$.main(TopicCommand.scala:51)
at kafka.admin.TopicCommand.main(TopicCommand.scala)
Caused by: org.apache.kafka.common.KafkaException: org.apache.kafka.common.KafkaException: Failed to load SSL keystore /var/ssl/private/kafka_broker.keystore.jks of type JKS
at org.apache.kafka.common.network.SaslChannelBuilder.configure(SaslChannelBuilder.java:193)
at org.apache.kafka.common.network.ChannelBuilders.create(ChannelBuilders.java:233)
at org.apache.kafka.common.network.ChannelBuilders.clientChannelBuilder(ChannelBuilders.java:82)
at org.apache.kafka.clients.ClientUtils.createChannelBuilder(ClientUtils.java:120)
at org.apache.kafka.clients.admin.KafkaAdminClient.createInternal(KafkaAdminClient.java:555)
... 6 more
Caused by: org.apache.kafka.common.KafkaException: Failed to load SSL keystore /var/ssl/private/kafka_broker.keystore.jks of type JKS
at org.apache.kafka.common.security.ssl.DefaultSslEngineFactory$FileBasedStore.load(DefaultSslEngineFactory.java:428)
at org.apache.kafka.common.security.ssl.DefaultSslEngineFactory$FileBasedStore.(DefaultSslEngineFactory.java:400)
at org.apache.kafka.common.security.ssl.DefaultSslEngineFactory.createKeystore(DefaultSslEngineFactory.java:299)
at org.apache.kafka.common.security.ssl.DefaultSslEngineFactory.configure(DefaultSslEngineFactory.java:161)
at org.apache.kafka.common.security.ssl.SslFactory.instantiateSslEngineFactory(SslFactory.java:147)
at org.apache.kafka.common.security.ssl.SslFactory.configure(SslFactory.java:97)
at org.apache.kafka.common.network.SaslChannelBuilder.configure(SaslChannelBuilder.java:189)
... 10 more
Caused by: java.io.IOException: keystore password was incorrect
at sun.security.pkcs12.PKCS12KeyStore.engineLoad(PKCS12KeyStore.java:2089)
at sun.security.provider.KeyStoreDelegator.engineLoad(KeyStoreDelegator.java:238)
at sun.security.provider.JavaKeyStore$DualFormatJKS.engineLoad(JavaKeyStore.java:71)
at java.security.KeyStore.load(KeyStore.java:1445)
at org.apache.kafka.common.security.ssl.DefaultSslEngineFactory$FileBasedStore.load(DefaultSslEngineFactory.java:425)
... 16 more
Caused by: java.security.UnrecoverableKeyException: failed to decrypt safe contents entry: javax.crypto.BadPaddingException: Given final block not properly padded. Such issues can arise if a bad key is used during decryption.
... 21 more