Linux – STunnel Not Reading Configuration File

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I generated an SSL certificate as specified on the answer to stunnel: SSL-to-SSL? (for smtp/imap)
And have the following configuation file:

cert = /home/marshall/stunnels/certs/umistunnel.keys

; protocol version (all, SSLv2, SSLv3, TLSv1)
sslVersion = SSLv3

pid = ./stunnel4.pid

[https]
accept  = 4433
connect = 3000

When I run

> stunnel config.conf

the error I get is:

Reading configuration from descriptor 3
Snagged 64 random bytes from /home/marshall/.rnd
Wrote 1024 new random bytes to /home/marshall/.rnd
PRNG seeded successfully
Line 1: End of section stunnel: SSL server needs a certificate

If I instead run:

> stunnel filethatdoesnotexist.asdf

I get the same result. And, if I run stunnel without any parameters, the only change is that the error states Line 0. What am I doing wrong here?

Best Answer

You may have both stunnel3 & stunnel4 installed on your system.

The default for "stunnel" is to softlink it to stunnel3:

root@sibelius:/usr/bin# ls -l stunnel*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      8 Oct 18  2011 stunnel -> stunnel3
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   2797 Oct 18  2011 stunnel3
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 109904 Oct 18  2011 stunnel4

The syntax of the stunnel.conf for stunnel3 is not compatible with the one for stunnel4.

Hence the error. Try removing stunnel3.

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