Thanks Robert. With required-untrusted, I am able to communicate with syslog-ng server with TLS encryption. I want to establish mutual authentication and need required-trusted option Could you please let me know how to solve the following certificate issue with required-trusted option Regards, Girish From: syslog-ng-bounces@lists.balabit.hu [mailto:syslog-ng-bounces@lists.balabit.hu] On Behalf Of Fekete, Róbert Sent: Friday, March 11, 2016 7:05 PM To: Syslog-ng users' and developers' mailing list Subject: Re: [syslog-ng] error='self signed certificate in certificate chain' Hi, try setting the peer-verify option to required-untrusted (https://www.balabit.com/sites/default/files/documents/syslog-ng-ose-latest-g...) HTH, Robert On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 2:28 PM, Girish Kumar <girish.kumar@al-enterprise.com<mailto:girish.kumar@al-enterprise.com>> wrote: Hi All, I am getting following error while starting syslog-ng with tls option. Could you please help me on this Mar 12 18:14:24 (none) syslog-ng[6136]: Syslog connection established; fd='5', server='AF_INET(10.135.83.103:6514)', local='AF_INET(0.0.0.0:0<http://0.0.0.0:0>)' Mar 12 18:14:24 (none) syslog-ng[6136]: Certificate validation failed; subject='emailAddress=giri@gmail.com<mailto:giri@gmail.com>, CN=girish kumar, OU=esd, O=enterprise, L=BAN, ST=KA, C=IN', issuer='emailAddress=giri@gmail.com<mailto:giri@gmail.com>, CN=girish kumar, OU=esd, O=enterprise, L=BAN, ST=KA, C=IN', error='self signed certificate in certificate chain', depth='1' Mar 12 18:14:24 (none) syslog-ng[6136]: SSL error while writing stream; tls_error='SSL routines:ssl3_get_server_certificate:certificate verify failed' Mar 12 18:14:24 (none) syslog-ng[6136]: I/O error occurred while writing; fd='5', error='Broken pipe (32)' Mar 12 18:14:24 (none) syslog-ng[6136]: Syslog connection broken; fd='5', server='AF_INET(10.135.83.103:6514)', time_reopen='60' //server conf source d_source { #syslog(ip("mysyslog.server.com<http://mysyslog.server.com>") port(6514) syslog(ip("10.135.83.103") port(6514) transport("tls") tls( key_file("/etc/cert.d/mySerPrivate.key") cert_file("/etc/cert.d/mySerCert.pem") ca_dir("/etc/ca.d") ssl-options(no-sslv2, no-sslv3, no-tlsv1, no-tlsv11) ) ); }; //Client conf destination d_destination { #syslog("mysyslog.server.com<http://mysyslog.server.com>" port(6514) syslog("10.135.83.103" port(6514) transport("tls") tls( ca_dir("/etc/ca.d") key_file("/etc/cert.d/myCliPrivate.key") cert_file("/etc/cert.d/myCliCert.pem") ssl-options(no-sslv2, no-sslv3, no-tlsv1, no-tlsv11) ) ); }; Regard, Girish ______________________________________________________________________________ Member info: https://lists.balabit.hu/mailman/listinfo/syslog-ng Documentation: http://www.balabit.com/support/documentation/?product=syslog-ng FAQ: http://www.balabit.com/wiki/syslog-ng-faq