Nats-Kafka briddge fails with error starting bridge, error signing nonce: unable to extract key pair from file : nkeys: no nkey seed found

[Rudraksh95]

Observed behavior

nats kafka bridge running in kubernetes (image tag nats-kafka:1.4.2) is crashing with no nkey seed found upon using username password authentication type

config map
nats: {
Servers: ["host:4222"[],
ConnectTimeout: 5000,
MaxReconnects: 5,
ReconnectWait: 5000,
tls: {
root: "/etc/ssl/certs/nats/ca.pem",
cert: "/etc/ssl/certs/nats/tls.crt",
key: "/etc/ssl/certs/nats/tls.key"
}
usercredentials: "/opt/nats/usercreds.conf"
},

usercreds.conf as a secrets file mounted on the pod
Name: nats-kafka-bridge
Namespace:
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Data
usercreds.conf: '{"authorization":{"password":"password","user":"user"}}'

Expected behavior

the bridge should be able to connect to the nats server with username pass and not nkeys

Server and client version

nats-kafka:1.4.2
nats-server: 2.10.7

Host environment

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Steps to reproduce

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