Hi Saboor, On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 11:28 AM, Saboor <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Dan > > I am trying to install OSSEC Agentless for monitoring .Successfully added > the IP of the host in the 'register_host.sh' (in var/ossec/agentless)and the > script 'ssh_integrity_check_linux' in the ossec.conf (in > var/ossec/etc/ossec.conf). > > While generating the public/private key using the command in ossec :'sudo -u > ossec ssh-keygen -t rsa' > I was encountering the error "Could not create directory / var/ossec/.ssh' > For rectifying this error I had change the file permission of OSSEC to 777 .
This is a bad fix. Very few things need 777. You have introduced a security issue into your environment. > I have scp the public key from server to the host by running the command > scp /var/ossec/.ssh/id_rsa.pub [email protected]:/root/.ssh/authorized_keys > it has successfully been added to the host > Now while restarting the ossec on my server and checking the logs of the > same I encounter an error which is : > > 2011/02/28 18:19:03 ossec-agentlessd: ERROR: > ssh_integrity_check_linux: [email protected]: Timeout while connecting to > host: [email protected] > Are you using the IP address or the hostname when trying to connect to it? I haven't used the agentless in a while, so I can't remember if it can resolve hostnames. Try registering the IP address instead of the hostname. > Please Advise > > -- > Regards, > Saboor Rafiq >
