The advantage of removing the Pass Phrase is to allow services including: HTTP, SMTP, POP , and IMAP to start automatically without user input.

To remove the built-in pass-phrase from a certificate's key, run the following commands (in that order):

• cp -a server.key server.key.org
• openssl rsa -in server.key.org -out server.key

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