According to the docs at http://directory.fedora.redhat.com/wiki/Howto:SSL#Starting_the_Server_with_SSL_enabled: "If you do not have PIN file, it will prompt you for the password you used to create the server cert." Nowhere in the docs does it tell you what this PIN file is called, or which directory the PIN file needs to be installed into, or exactly what (apart from the PIN) needs to go into the PIN file.
See http://directory.fedora.redhat.com/wiki/Howto:SSL#Script
Brian, I'm not sure where the Admin Server stuff is documented, perhaps in the Managing with Console doc. But somewhere we need to document the format of the password/pin file for Admin Server because it is different than Directory Server and stored in a different place in the upcoming version.
Incorporated this into Encryption Keys section of Chapter 4 of Admin Guide.
First, this isn't in the encryption keys section as the docs stand. Secondly, this does not belong in that section; the encryption keys section relates to encrypting database information as its stored in the database; there's nothing there that relates to the Console, SSL, or the admin server. The better location is either the basic "starting the console" section in chapter 1 (intro to the DS) or using the DS, ADS, and Console with SSL in chapter 11 (managing ssl). Reopening.
I believe this is addressed in the beta admin guide now (as of 11/16, actually) in the "Creating a Password File" section of the SSL chapter: http://www.redhat.com/docs/manua-ls/dir-server/ag/8.0/Starting_the_Server_with_SSL_Enabled-Creating_a_Password_File.html All of the sections dealing with starting the server in SSL now reference that section, too. See the last step of http://engineering.redhat.com/docbot/en-US/Red_Hat_Directory_Server/0/html/Administration_Guide/Starting_the_Server_with_SSL_Enabled-Enabling_SSL_Only_in_the_DS.html.
I believe this is addressed in the beta admin guide now (as of 11/16, actually) in the "Creating a Password File" section of the SSL chapter: http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/dir-server/ag/8.0/Starting_the_Server_with_SSL_Enabled-Creating_a_Password_File.html All of the sections dealing with starting the server in SSL now reference that section, too. See the last step of http://engineering.redhat.com/docbot/en-US/Red_Hat_Directory_Server/0/html/Administration_Guide/Starting_the_Server_with_SSL_Enabled-Enabling_SSL_Only_in_the_DS.html.
CLosing review bugs and content bugs that were fixed in the 8.0 release for the install, admin, and CLI guides.