zowe auth login apiml failed with 1E08010C:DECODER routines::unsupported

Products

• Brightside

Issue/Introduction

Run ZOWE CLI to login to APIML with certificate and key file and got following error: 

zowe auth login apiml --ru false --base-p your_profile --cert-file xxxx.cer --cert-key-file xxxx.pem   

Unexpected Command Error:
Please review the message and stack below.
Contact the creator of handler:
"C:\XXX\XXX\bin\npm\node_modules\@zowe\cli\lib/auth/ApimlAuthHandler"
Message:
error:1E08010C:DECODER routines::unsupported
Stack:
Error: error:1E08010C:DECODER routines::unsupported
    at setKey (node:internal/tls/secure-context:92:11)
    at configSecureContext (node:internal/tls/secure-context:174:7)
    at Object.createSecureContext (node:_tls_common:117:3)
    at Object.connect (node:_tls_wrap:1629:48)
    at Agent.createConnection (node:https:150:22)
    at Agent.createSocket (node:_http_agent:350:26)
    at Agent.addRequest (node:_http_agent:297:10)    at new ClientRequest (node:_http_client:335:16)
    at Object.request (node:https:360:10)         

Environment

ZOWE CLI version : 7.20.1
npm version : 8.19.2

Cause

Zowe CLI ONLY supports certificates in PEM format. 

Zowe CLI does NOT currently support certificate files that require a password.

Resolution

Recreate certifiate without password and rerun the ZOWE CLI command.