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

Wed Aug 3 18:00:29 UTC 2016

Did you change the hostname manually? Usually that's the problem.

On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 10:37 AM, Daryl Rose <darylrose at outlook.com> wrote:

> Thank you for the information.  However, I am confused by a few things.
>
>
> The error that I am seeing is on the spacewalk server itself, not on the
> clients.  isn't /etc/sysconfig/rhn/osad-auth.conf only on the clients?
>  OSAD is failing to start on the server with the invalid password error.
> Do I need to remove and recreate the osad-auth.conf file on all of the
> clients?
>
>
> Thank you.
>
>
> Daryl
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Dimitri Yioulos <dyioulos at netatlantic.com>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, August 3, 2016 10:54 AM
> *To:* spacewalk-list at redhat.com; Daryl Rose
> *Subject:* RE: [Spacewalk-list] osad/jabber - Invalid password errors
>
> 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
> <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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