Re: Challenge response from server was incorrect!

[Mark Burgess]

On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 06:11 -0800, bern wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> For some of my servers, when executing cfrun, I receive the following
> message:
> 
> # cfrun lablin04
> cfrun(0):         .......... [ Hailing lablin04 ] ..........
> 
> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> - - - -
> 
> cfengine:: Received signal 13 (SIGPIPE) while doing [pre-lock-state]
> cfengine:: Logical start time Tue Dec 20 08:45:53 2005
> cfengine:: This sub-task started really at Tue Dec 20 08:45:53 2005
> cfengine:: Received signal 13 (SIGPIPE) while doing [pre-lock-state]
> cfengine:: Logical start time Tue Dec 20 08:45:53 2005
> cfengine:: This sub-task started really at Tue Dec 20 08:45:53 2005
> cfengine:: Received signal 13 (SIGPIPE) while doing [pre-lock-state]
> cfengine:: Logical start time Tue Dec 20 08:45:53 2005
> cfengine:: This sub-task started really at Tue Dec 20 08:45:53 2005
> cfengine:: Challenge response from server prdcvs02/10.99.0.153 was
> incorrect!
> cfengine:: Authentication dialogue with prdcvs02 failed
> cfengine:: Unable to establish connection with prdcvs02 (failover)
> cfengine:: Can't open file /var/cfengine/inputs/cf.resolv
> cfengine:: (CFINPUTS is set to /var/cfengine/inputs/cf.resolv)
> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 

Run client and server with -d2 to see why. This is most likely an access
control issue.

> 
> I thought it might have been related to the keys, so I recreated them
> but that did not fix the problem.  For all my servers, the files
> cfservd.conf, cfagent.conf and update.conf are all the same then I
> would believe the problem is not on the client's side.
> 
> Does someone have an idea what is the problem?
> 
> Also, how come CFINPUTS is set to /var/cfengine/inputs/cf.resolv?  I
> did not set it up in any files.

Very odd indeed!