[ARGUS] sasl config?

[eric]

On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 20:22:14 -0700, Peter Van Epp proclaimed...

> 	Before I go reinventing the wheel, does someone know the
> 	steps necessary to create a shared secret in sasl so that
> 	argus will automatically authenticate without prompting for
> 	a user ID and password? The documentation (such as it is
> 	:-)) suggests such a thing is possible but is silent on how
> 	one would do this (other than by reading the program man
> 	pages).

Was the wheel ever invented? :)

Anyway - I tried to link against the sasl libs, but there were some
problems getting them compiled under FreeBSD 4.x and OpenBSD
3.{4,5}. I don't know what I ran into before, but it made me use an
SSH tunnel. 

Currently we have a seperate physical network so there's no major
issues, but in about 1-2 months we're going to have some collectors
all aggregated by 1-2 servers, which will need to happen over some
sort of a crypto tunnel.

Perhaps we can do some testing? I have a handful of machines to do
it on (both Free and Open) and with a little guidance it might work
(cough, Carter, cough). I'd also be interested in getting this
working with something like kerberos, if possible.

- Eric