Yes, the ossecr user (or ossec group) needs permission to read it.

thanks,

On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 1:00 PM, OSSEC junkie <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am getting permission errors on client.keys:
> 2012/08/22 08:44:38 ossec-remoted(4111): INFO: Maximum number of
> agents allowed: '3500'.
> 2012/08/22 08:44:38 ossec-remoted(1410): INFO: Reading authentication keys 
> file.
> 2012/08/22 08:44:38 ossec-remoted(1103): ERROR: Unable to open file
> '/etc/client.keys'.
> 2012/08/22 08:44:38 ossec-remoted(1750): ERROR: No remote connection
> configured. Exiting.
>
>
> My configuration (permissions) for the file is:
>
> root@wu-tang:/var/ossec/etc# ls -al
> total 184
> dr-xr-x---  3 root ossec  4096 Aug 20 06:02 .
> dr-xr-x--- 13 root ossec  4096 Aug 20 05:59 ..
> -r--r-----  1 root root  57369 Aug 20 06:22 client.keys
>
> I assume it needs to be root:ossec but wanted to get final confirmation.
>
> Can you let me know please?

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