ossec-authd

The ossec-authd daemon will automatically add an agent to an OSSEC manager and provide the key to the agent. The agent-auth application is the client application used with ossec-authd.

There is no authentication involved in this transaction, so it is recommended that this daemon only be run when a new agent is being added.

ossec-authd argument options

-d

Run in debug mode.

-p <port>

Listen on port. Default 1515

ossec-authd example usage

Example: Running ossec-authd

# /var/ossec/bin/ossec-authd -p 1515 >/dev/null 2>&1 &

And the logs when an agent is added:

2011/01/19 15:04:40 ossec-authd: INFO: New connection from 192.168.10.5
2011/01/19 15:04:41 ossec-authd: INFO: Received request for a new agent (example-agent) from: 192.168.10.5
2011/01/19 15:04:41 ossec-authd: INFO: Agent key generated for example-agent (requested by 192.168.10.5)
2011/01/19 15:04:41 ossec-authd: INFO: Agent key created for example-agent (requested by 192.168.10.5)