[syslog-ng] problem configuring syslog-ng with TLS

[fredzy padzy]

Already tried, and it work well'

But i just need one tool to make everything work.

Maybe other people did have those SSL trouble ?

wonder how they solved it

2009/7/16 Charles Jennings <jennings.charles.e.security at gmail.com>

>  Not to knock syslog-ng tls - I also had problems - so I turned to this
> solution:  syslog-ng over stunnel:
>
> http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/features/articles/syslog_ng.jsp
>
> Regards.
>
>  ------------------------------
> *From:* syslog-ng-bounces at lists.balabit.hu [mailto:
> syslog-ng-bounces at lists.balabit.hu] *On Behalf Of *fredzy padzy
> *Sent:* Thursday, July 16, 2009 10:28 AM
> *To:* Syslog-ng users' and developers' mailing list
> *Subject:* Re: [syslog-ng] problem configuring syslog-ng with TLS
>
> Hi Mohsen
>
> I'm having the same kind of problem with the simple authentication (IE not
> mutual one)
>
> The error is the same one (and sometime turne into a tlsv1 alert unknow
> ca), and i think syslog-ng client isn't able to read the cacert.pem file,
> from the CA that signed the certificate sent by the syslog-ng server ...
> quite strange moreover the rights and conf looks good
>
> Anyway, i'm surprised with your client conf :
> Server config:
> *destination d_tlsserver {
>    tcp("192.168.13.39" port(1999)
>      tls(ca_dir("/opt/syslog-ng/certs")
>      peer_verify(required-trusted)
>    ));
> };*
> Did you try without this line ?
>
> Also check your client logs, i've got some "unable to get local issuer
> certificate" in my /var/adm/messages
>
> bye
>
> 2009/7/16 Mohsen Alimomeni <m.alimomeni at gmail.com>
>
>> Hi everyone,
>> I want to configure syslog-ng with TLS, but there are problems in client
>> connecting to server. This is the error in client side:
>> {
>> Jul 16 17:04:10 momeni syslog-ng[31084]: syslog-ng starting up;
>> version='3.0.3'
>> Jul 16 17:04:10 momeni syslog-ng[31084]: Syslog connection established;
>> fd='7', server='AF_INET(192.168.13.39:1999)', local='AF_INET(0.0.0.0:0)'
>> Jul 16 17:04:10 momeni syslog-ng[31084]: Certificate validation failed;
>> subject='emailAddress=momeni at amnafzar.com, CN=momeni, ..to the end! ',
>> error='invalid CA certificate', depth='1'
>> Jul 16 17:04:10 momeni syslog-ng[31084]: SSL error while writing stream;
>> tls_error='SSL routines:SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE:certificate verify
>> failed'
>> Jul 16 17:04:10 momeni syslog-ng[31084]: I/O error occurred while writing;
>> fd='7', error='Broken pipe (32)'
>> Jul 16 17:04:10 momeni syslog-ng[31084]: Syslog connection broken; fd='7',
>> server='AF_INET(192.168.13.39:1999)', time_reopen='60'
>> }
>>
>> To make sure my certificates are valid I run two commands:
>> On server: openssl s_server -CApath CA/ -CAfile CA/cacert.pem -cert
>> Client/clientcert.pem -key Client/clientkeye
>> em -accept 8080
>>
>> On client: openssl s_client -connect 192.168.13.39:8080
>> The result on the client is the server certificate and the last line is:
>> {
>> Verify return code: 19 (self signed certificate in certificate chain)
>> }
>>
>> The client and server are both syslog-ng_3.0.2 (and 3.0.3) in ubuntu.
>> These are the steps I configured the client and server:
>> I used the script CA.sh to genereate X.509 certificates. I created a
>> cacert using the command:
>>        CA.sh -newca
>> created the ca files :cacert.pem, ..
>> created a request:
>>        CA.sh -newreq
>> rename the files created to syslog_cert.pem and syslog_ket.pem
>> signed it with the ca:
>>        CA.sh -sign
>> Then I copied the cacert.pem file to client and created it's hash as
>> explained in syslog-ng documentation.
>>
>> configuration files:
>>
>> Client config:
>> *destination d_tlsserver {
>>    tcp("192.168.13.39" port(1999)
>>      tls(ca_dir("/opt/syslog-ng/certs")
>>      peer_verify(required-trusted)
>>    ));
>> };*
>>
>>
>> Server config:
>> *source rezvani_tls {
>>    tcp(ip(0.0.0.0) port(1999) max-connections(300)
>>      tls(key_file("/opt/certs/newcerts/syslogs_key.pem")
>>      cert_file("/opt/certs/newcerts/syslogs_cert.pem")
>>      peer_verify(optional-untrusted)
>>   ));
>> };
>> *
>>
>>
>> --
>> __ \ /_\\_-//_ Mohsen Alimomeni
>>
>>
>>
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