open client key

[cfowler@cfowler console]$ ./console -c ../contrib/client.pem -M
192.168.2.231 -l root P2
console: Encryption required by server for login


when I do an strace, I never see an attempt to open the client.pem file.
Am I missing something?  

On the server,
[root@cas8]# /sbin/conserver -b783 -c /etc/server.pem 
conserver (96): conserver.com version 7.2.5
conserver (96): Started as `root' by `root' at Mon Apr 28 10:32:17 2003
Enter PEM pass phrase:


I did not generate the key right because I can not enter the PEM
passphrase everytime it is started.

Thanks,
Chris