[Spacewalk-list] osad/jabber - Invalid password errors

[Dimitri Yioulos]

Robert is correct.  I've had similar issues with osad, and so created a simple Ansible playbook to delete osad-auth.conf against all of my nodes.  If you're running Ansible, here it is:

---

- hosts: all
  gather_facts: false
  become: yes

  tasks:
    - name: stop osad
      command: /sbin/service osad stop
    - name: remove osad auth file
      command: /bin/rm -f /etc/sysconfig/rhn/osad-auth.conf
    - name: start osad
      command: /sbin/service osad start

Dimitri

-----Original Message-----
From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Robert Paschedag
Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2016 11:14 AM
To: Daryl Rose <darylrose at outlook.com>
Cc: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] osad/jabber - Invalid password errors

You should have configuration files for osad in /etc/sysconfig/rhn. An osad.conf and osad-auth.conf.

I think, if you remove the osad-auth.conf file and restart osad, it should re-register. I think!

Regards
Robert
Am 03.08.2016 15:38 schrieb Daryl Rose <darylrose at outlook.com>:
>
> Hmmm....Wonder how that happened?  I didn't press send, at least not that I'm aware of.
>
>
> Anyway, before I was rudely interrupted by my email client, I was 
> asking if there is a password in the jabberd database or authreg.db file that could be an issue?  Since I am no longer completely clearing out the database files, perhaps something got stuck at some point?  Would clearing out the database files rest the password?
>
>
> But again, I'm wondering what the invalid password is?  What is osad 
> logging into?
>
>
> Thank you.
>
>
> Daryl
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com 
> <spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com> on behalf of Daryl Rose 
> <darylrose at outlook.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 3, 2016 8:15 AM
> To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] osad/jabber - Invalid password errors
>  
>
> I have some additional information that I think that I should share.
>
>
> Because of specific issues experienced with SW, I used to completely remove jabberd database and log files.  I used to stop SW, cd to /var/lib/jabberd/db and remove the entire contents then restart SW.  But, I started experience problems with OSAD not picking up packages, and after so research, I learned that the way that I used to do things was not a good idea.
>
>
> I think that it was a posting here that told me by removing at database files and the authreg.db it was causing the clients from losing connection with the SW server.  In the SW documentation, I learned that its better to delete only the logs that are not required.  These are the steps that I now use:
>
>
> /usr/bin/db_checkpoint -1 -h /var/lib/jabberd/db/ ## mark logs for 
> deletion /usr/bin/db_archive -d -h /var/lib/jabberd/db/  ## delete 
> logs /usr/sbin/spacewalk-service restart  ## stop/start spacewalk
>
> I have this setup in a crontab that runs on a daily schedule.  I set 
> this up about two months ago.
>
>
> I'm not sure when the invalid password issue started.  But it was some 
> point after implementing these steps that the invalid password issue 
> started.  Is there a password
>
>
>  
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Robert Paschedag <robert.paschedag at web.de>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 2, 2016 11:47 PM
> To: Daryl Rose
> Cc: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] osad/jabber - Invalid password errors
>  
> Hi Daryl,
>
> the password fire jabber is stored in /etc/sysconfig/rhn/osad.auth, if I remember right.
>
> The other thing is not enough permissions to delete the PID file.
>
> Are you running osad as a non-root user?
>
> Regards
> Robert
> Am 02.08.2016 16:24 schrieb Daryl Rose <darylrose at outlook.com>:
> >
> > OSAD has not been working, and I finally had a moment to look into it.  The osa-dispatcher.log has the following error:
> >
> >
> > 2016/08/02 08:38:25 -05:00 25556 0.0.0.0: 
> > osad/jabber_lib.setup_connection('Connected to jabber server', 
> > '<spacewalk-server.domain.com>')
> > 2016/08/02 08:38:25 -05:00 25556 0.0.0.0: 
> > osad/jabber_lib.register('ERROR', 'Invalid password')
> >
> > What password would be invalid?  I am using a customized 
> > certificate, and its still valid for another two years. I can register servers just fine.  I can use rhn_check to retrieve updates, so I'm sure that the certificate is fine.
> >
> >
> > There is another error that I see:
> >
> >
> > 2016/08/01 09:36:22 -05:00 1552 0.0.0.0: 
> > osad/jabber_lib.main('ERROR', 'Traceback (most recent call last):\n  
> > File "/usr/share/rhn/osad/jabber_lib.py", line 119, in main\n    c = 
> > self.setup_connection(no_fork=no_fork)\n  File 
> > "/usr/share/rhn/osad/jabber_lib.py", line 283, in setup_connection\n    
> > self.push_to_background()\n  File 
> > "/usr/share/rhn/osad/jabber_lib.py", line 213, in 
> > push_to_background\n    os.unlink(pid_file)\nOSError: [Errno 13] 
> > Permission denied: \'/var/run/osa-dispatcher.pid\'\n')
> >
> > Anyone have any suggestions?
> >
> > Thank you
> >
> > Daryl
> >
> >
> >

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