SASL with argus

Jesse Bowling jessebowling at gmail.com
Wed Jul 17 09:40:05 EDT 2013


Bizarre...When running argus in the foreground with -D 2, I get only these
messages:

# /usr/local/sbin/argus -F /etc/argus.conf -D 2
argus[13738]: 17 Jul 13 09:31:59.676329 started
argus[13738]: 17 Jul 13 09:31:59.698620 ArgusGetInterfaceStatus: interface
eth3 is up

However, the ra process is able to connect and receive records just fine!!

I found that if I moved the directive ARGUS_DAEMON="yes" to below the two
SASL configuration options (ARGUS_{MIN,MAX}_SSF) in my argus.conf,
everything works as expected...Perhaps some work on the startup process to
finish parsing before starting processing is in order? Or is there a deeper
issue?

Cheers,

Jesse


On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 11:59 PM, Carter Bullard <carter at qosient.com> wrote:

> OK, so your not getting any mechs from argus to negotiate.
> Argus should be sending ra() what algorithms are available,
> so ra() can chose the algorithm it likes.  But argus is sending {}.
>
> What is argus saying ?  Run argus with -D 2, not in daemon mode,
> and lets see what argus is saying when the SASL turn starts.
>
> Carter
>
> On Jul 16, 2013, at 10:10 PM, Jesse Bowling <jessebowling at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Tried this to ensure I was hitting /etc/ra.conf, and set RA_MIN_SSF=40 and
> RA_MAX_SSF=128
>
> /usr/local/bin/ra -S localhost -F /etc/ra.conf -D 10
>
> <snip>
> ra[8822.006799f7ff7f0000]: 22:07:30.984553 RaSaslNegotiate(0x7, 0x7,
> 0xc35af0) receiving capability list...
> ra[8822.006799f7ff7f0000]: 22:07:30.984583 RaGetSaslString(0x7,
> 0xfffbc270, 8184) {}
> ra[8822.006799f7ff7f0000]: 22:07:30.984596 RaSaslNegotiate(0x7, 0x7,
> 0xc35af0) calling sasl_client_start()
> ra[8822.006799f7ff7f0000]: 22:07:30.984864 RaSendSaslString(7, 0x0, 0)
> (null)
> ra[8822]: 22:07:30.984888 RaSaslNegotiate: error starting SASL negotiation
> SASL(-4): no mechanism available: No worthy mechs found
> ra[8822.006799f7ff7f0000]: 22:07:30.984966 ArgusShutDown (-1)
> </snip>
>
> /etc/sasl2/argus.conf:
> pwcheck_method: auxprop
> mech_list: PLAIN LOGIN NTLM CRAM-MD5 DIGEST-MD5
> auxprop_plugin: sasldb
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jesse
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 5:31 PM, Carter Bullard <carter at qosient.com>wrote:
>
>> What are the values for RA_MIN_SSF and RA_MAX_SSF in your .rarc file?
>> Possible if you set those to something other than zero, and you may
>> be able to negotiate a mech.
>>
>> Carter
>>
>>
>>
>> On Jul 16, 2013, at 1:06 PM, Jesse Bowling <jessebowling at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> As a followup, I changed my argus.conf to look like:
>>
>> pwcheck_method: auxprop
>> mech_list: DIGEST-MD5
>> auxprop_plugin: sasldb
>>
>> and tried the sample client/server programs like this:
>>
>> # sasl2-sample-server -s argus -m digest-md5
>> $ sasl2-sample-client -s argus -m digest-md5 localhost
>>
>> ...provide the authentication/authorization id as before, then the
>> password, and receive a successful authentication.
>>
>> However I get the same error with ra client programs when attempting to
>> connect...What am I missing here?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Jesse
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 10:42 AM, Jesse Bowling <jessebowling at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I'm a SASL noob, and having a hard time getting it configured to work
>>> with argus. I've tried setting it up and am getting the following error
>>> message:
>>>
>>> rasplit[15301.00c7bc34f77f0000]: 10:27:31.072229 RaSaslNegotiate(0x3,
>>> 0x3, 0x27c6d90) receiving capability list...
>>> rasplit[15301.00c7bc34f77f0000]: 10:27:31.072251 RaGetSaslString(0x3,
>>> 0x99773830, 8184) {}
>>> rasplit[15301.00c7bc34f77f0000]: 10:27:31.072259 RaSaslNegotiate(0x3,
>>> 0x3, 0x27c6d90) calling sasl_client_start()
>>> rasplit[15301.00c7bc34f77f0000]: 10:27:31.072646 RaSendSaslString(3,
>>> 0x0, 0) (null)
>>> rasplit[15301]: 10:27:31.072663 RaSaslNegotiate: error starting SASL
>>> negotiation SASL(-4): no mechanism available: No worthy mechs found
>>>
>>>
>>> I have the following setup bits, and may of course be missing something
>>> simple here:
>>>
>>> /etc/argus.conf:
>>>
>>> ARGUS_MIN_SSF=40
>>> ARGUS_MAX_SSF=128
>>>
>>> /etc/ra.conf
>>>
>>> RA_USER_AUTH="raclient/raclient"
>>> RA_AUTH_PASS="Passwd I set with saslpasswd2 -c -a argus raclient"
>>>
>>> /etc/sasl2/argus.conf:
>>>
>>> pwcheck_method: auxprop
>>> auxprop_plugin: sasldb
>>> mech_list: DIGESTMD5 PLAIN LOGIN CRAMMD5
>>>
>>> # sasldblistusers2:
>>> raclient at host.realm.tld: userPassword
>>>
>>> Pluginviewer output:
>>>
>>> Installed SASL (server side) mechanisms are:
>>> CRAM-MD5 DIGEST-MD5 PLAIN ANONYMOUS LOGIN EXTERNAL
>>> List of server plugins follows
>>> Plugin "crammd5" [loaded],      API version: 4
>>>         SASL mechanism: CRAM-MD5, best SSF: 0, supports setpass: no
>>>         security flags: NO_ANONYMOUS|NO_PLAINTEXT
>>>         features: SERVER_FIRST
>>> Plugin "digestmd5" [loaded],    API version: 4
>>>         SASL mechanism: DIGEST-MD5, best SSF: 128, supports setpass: no
>>>         security flags: NO_ANONYMOUS|NO_PLAINTEXT|MUTUAL_AUTH
>>>         features: PROXY_AUTHENTICATION
>>> Plugin "plain" [loaded],        API version: 4
>>>         SASL mechanism: PLAIN, best SSF: 0, supports setpass: no
>>>         security flags: NO_ANONYMOUS
>>>         features: WANT_CLIENT_FIRST|PROXY_AUTHENTICATION
>>> Plugin "anonymous" [loaded],    API version: 4
>>>         SASL mechanism: ANONYMOUS, best SSF: 0, supports setpass: no
>>>         security flags: NO_PLAINTEXT
>>>         features: WANT_CLIENT_FIRST
>>> Plugin "login" [loaded],        API version: 4
>>>         SASL mechanism: LOGIN, best SSF: 0, supports setpass: no
>>>         security flags: NO_ANONYMOUS
>>>         features:
>>> Installed auxprop mechanisms are:
>>> sasldb
>>> List of auxprop plugins follows
>>> Plugin "sasldb" ,       API version: 4
>>>         supports store: yes
>>>
>>> Installed SASL (client side) mechanisms are:
>>> CRAM-MD5 DIGEST-MD5 PLAIN ANONYMOUS LOGIN EXTERNAL
>>> List of client plugins follows
>>> Plugin "crammd5" [loaded],      API version: 4
>>>         SASL mechanism: CRAM-MD5, best SSF: 0
>>>         security flags: NO_ANONYMOUS|NO_PLAINTEXT
>>>         features: SERVER_FIRST
>>> Plugin "digestmd5" [loaded],    API version: 4
>>>         SASL mechanism: DIGEST-MD5, best SSF: 128
>>>         security flags: NO_ANONYMOUS|NO_PLAINTEXT|MUTUAL_AUTH
>>>         features: PROXY_AUTHENTICATION|NEED_SERVER_FQDN
>>> Plugin "plain" [loaded],        API version: 4
>>>         SASL mechanism: PLAIN, best SSF: 0
>>>         security flags: NO_ANONYMOUS
>>>         features: WANT_CLIENT_FIRST|PROXY_AUTHENTICATION
>>> Plugin "anonymous" [loaded],    API version: 4
>>>         SASL mechanism: ANONYMOUS, best SSF: 0
>>>         security flags: NO_PLAINTEXT
>>>         features: WANT_CLIENT_FIRST
>>> Plugin "login" [loaded],        API version: 4
>>>         SASL mechanism: LOGIN, best SSF: 0
>>>         security flags: NO_ANONYMOUS
>>>         features: SERVER_FIRST
>>> Plugin "EXTERNAL" [loaded],     API version: 4
>>>         SASL mechanism: EXTERNAL, best SSF: 0
>>>         security flags: NO_ANONYMOUS|NO_PLAINTEXT|NO_DICTIONARY
>>>         features: WANT_CLIENT_FIRST|PROXY_AUTHENTICATION
>>>
>>> Anyone set this up successfully for digest-md5?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Jesse
>>>
>>> --
>>> Jesse Bowling
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Jesse Bowling
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Jesse Bowling
>
>
>


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Jesse Bowling
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