After upgrading to Asterisk 22 on Debian ‘sid’ I am having troubles with RSA keys. I created the keys with astgenkey -n copied them to /var/lib/asterisk/keys, made sure they have correct ownership and permissions. Double checked the manpage and documentation, restarted asterisk Sill ‘show keys’ d…

Found solution. Manpage (and many other documentation) is wrong about the key location. [image] RSA Keys don't load Asterisk Support Put them in /usr/share/asterisk/keys Le 20/05/2025 à 03:17, edgreenberg via Asterisk Community a écrit : [edgreenberg] edgr…

On Saturday 03 January 2026 at 14:42:46, hb9eue via Asterisk Community wrote: After upgrading to Asterisk 22 on Debian ‘sid’ I am having troubles with RSA keys. On Saturday 03 January 2026 at 15:30:14, hb9eue via Asterisk Community wrote: Found solution. Manpage (and many other documentation)…

Hi there Try to find a config statement which sets the location for your keys. That way you can out them wherever you want. I have mine in /etc/asterisk/. Regards, Rob

Thank you, I also submitted a debian bugreport about this and learned this is configurable, but strange is: asterisk.conf => astkeydir points to /var/lib/asterisk/ - but still keys are loaded from /usr/share/asterisk/keys/ maybe this config value should point to /var/lib/asterisk/keys/ ? -Benoît-

What is the actual complete contents of asterisk.conf? By default it’s a template, which means it is not actually loaded.

Indeed, it is a template: [directories](!) astcachedir => /var/cache/asterisk astetcdir => /etc/asterisk astmoddir => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/asterisk/modules astvarlibdir => /var/lib/asterisk astdbdir => /var/lib/asterisk astkeydir => /var/lib/asterisk astdatadir => /usr/share/asterisk a…

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Found solution. Manpage (and many other documentation) is wrong about the key location.

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