Hi Tom,

It looks like ListenSyslog does unfortunately have the client auth
hard-coded as required:

sslContext = 
sslContextService.createSSLContext(SSLContextService.ClientAuth.REQUIRED);

The good news is ListenSyslog is really just a combination of
ListenTCP/ListenUDP + ParseSyslog, and ListenTCP exposes a Client Auth
property for the user to select WANT, REQUIRED, or NONE.

So you should be able to use ListenTCP + ParseSyslog (if you were
parsing messages) and set Client Auth to NONE. Let us know if that
doesn't work.

In the meantime I will create a JIRA to expose the same option for ListenSyslog.

-Bryan


On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 1:57 PM, Stewart Thomas J
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I have set up two TLS end points in NiFi 1.1.2.
>
> ListenHTTP
>   Uses StandardSSLContextService with just a JKS Keystore file. This allows
> my HTTPS client (curl) to connect to this end point and upload files.
>
> ListenSyslog
>   Configured with StandardSSLContextService containing a JKS Keystore and a
> JKS Truststore (contains my CA).
>
>
> Where I am running into trouble is with my ListenSyslog. When I configure a
> CentOS7 client (rsyslog) to use TLS pointing to my ListenSyslog, I am
> getting an error on the NiFi side:
>
> 2017-04-04 12:50:30,839 ERROR [pool-86823-thread-1]
> o.a.n.r.io.socket.ssl.SSLSocketChannel
> org.apache.nifi.remote.io.socket.ssl.SSLSocketChannel@21e44b13 Failed to
> connect due to {}
> javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: null cert chain
>         at sun.security.ssl.Handshaker.checkThrown(Handshaker.java:1431)
> ~[na:1.8.0_92]
>         at
> sun.security.ssl.SSLEngineImpl.checkTaskThrown(SSLEngineImpl.java:535)
> ~[na:1.8.0_92]
>         at
> sun.security.ssl.SSLEngineImpl.writeAppRecord(SSLEngineImpl.java:1214)
> ~[na:1.8.0_92]
>         at sun.security.ssl.SSLEngineImpl.wrap(SSLEngineImpl.java:1186)
> ~[na:1.8.0_92]
>         at javax.net.ssl.SSLEngine.wrap(SSLEngine.java:469) ~[na:1.8.0_92]
>         at
> org.apache.nifi.remote.io.socket.ssl.SSLSocketChannel.performHandshake(SSLSocketChannel.java:205)
> [nifi-security-utils-1.1.2.jar:1.1.2]
>         at
> org.apache.nifi.remote.io.socket.ssl.SSLSocketChannel.connect(SSLSocketChannel.java:158)
> [nifi-security-utils-1.1.2.jar:1.1.2]
>         at
> org.apache.nifi.remote.io.socket.ssl.SSLSocketChannel.read(SSLSocketChannel.java:540)
> [nifi-security-utils-1.1.2.jar:1.1.2]
>         at
> org.apache.nifi.remote.io.socket.ssl.SSLSocketChannel.read(SSLSocketChannel.java:533)
> [nifi-security-utils-1.1.2.jar:1.1.2]
>         at
> org.apache.nifi.processor.util.listen.handler.socket.SSLSocketChannelHandler.run(SSLSocketChannelHandler.java:76)
> [nifi-processor-utils-1.1.2.jar:1.1.2]
>         at
> java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
> [na:1.8.0_92]
>         at
> java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
> [na:1.8.0_92]
>         at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) [na:1.8.0_92]
>
>
> This is using the following configuration for rsyslog client.
>
> $DefaultNetStreamDriver gtls     # use gtls netstream driver
> $DefaultNetstreamDriverCAFile /usr/local/hadoop/keys/myCA.pem
> $ActionSendStreamDriverMode 1         # Require TLS for the connection
> $ActionSendStreamDriverAuthMode anon  # Server is NOT authenticated
> *.* @@syslog.host.com:514;RSYSLOG_SyslogProtocol23Format
>
> If I create client certs and add this to rsyslog client, then it works to
> talk to ListenSyslog:
> $DefaultNetstreamDriverCertFile /etc/syslog.d/keys/syslog.crt
> $DefaultNetstreamDriverKeyFile /etc/syslog.d/keys/syslog.key
>
> My question is, does ListenSyslog with StandardSSLContextService force
> client certificates? I was trying to see if we could set this up without
> managing client certs (just encrypt the data traffic like I was able to do
> with ListenHTTP).
>
> Thanks,
> Tom
>
>
>

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