On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 3:42 PM, dan (ddp) <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 3:17 PM, Joe S <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> IP of ANY is still not working of me on the following setup:
>>>
>>> * Clients (multiple RHEL 6.1 AMD64) using Atomic ossec-hids-client
>>> * Server (RHEL 5.7 AMD64) using OSSEC tar.gz with patches from
>>> mercurial.
>>>
>>> I know this is an open source project and I intend to make no demands
>>> of anyone's time. I don't know if this is a bug or an undocumented
>>> feature. It seems like a bug, but the last email thread I had with
>>> Daniel indicated that this couldn't be a bug and that significant code
>>> would have had to have been changed for this to be true.
>>>
>>> So I don't know what to do.
>>
>> Here's what works.
>>
>> Manually edit the client.keys file. Replace "ANY" with the IP Address
>> of the host. Save file. Extract key and restart server.
>> Import key on client, restart client.
>> It works.
>>
>> What is the string after the IP/any field in client.keys? What is it
>> used for? Is it some kind of hash used for authentication?
>
> Yes, that is the key.
>
> I just setup to CentOS 6.0 x86_64 systems.
> I installed OSSEC on each (post 2.6 source, but I don't think anything
> has really changed in the auth stuff).
> One system became an OSSEC server.
> The other an agent.
> I setup ossec-authd, and then ran agent-auth (copy & pasted most of it
> from dcid's blog post).
> No errors so far.
>
> So the problem seems to either be your systems, or the atomic RPMs.
>

It doesn't seem to work for me with atomic RPMs either, but I don't
get any errors. Just no connection.

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