ekeyd doesn't seem to recognize key

Tue Oct 4 17:50:49 BST 2011

Thanks, just moments ago I hand-created a symlink of /dev/entropykey/<serial> to /dev/ttyACM0 and then it saw it in ekeydctl list.  As you note udev didn't create it although there is a rule for it.  I had to rekey but it's running now.

Chris Thomas
MedPlus, A Quest Diagnostics Company | Senior Unix Administrator | 4690 Parkway Drive | Mason, OH 45040 USA | phone +1.513.204.2711 | cthomas at medplus.com | www.medplus.com 

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Snyder [mailto:swsnyder at snydernet.net] 
Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2011 12:48 PM
To: Thomas, Chris
Cc: entropykey-users at lists.simtec.co.uk
Subject: RE: ekeyd doesn't seem to recognize key

You said that you're using the default config file, but the default config doesn't use /dev/ttyACM0.  It uses /dev/entropykey on the assumption that some other process has created that devnode (or symlink to a devnode).

I'm on CentOS v5.7 (i686) and just reference /dev/ttyACM0 directly in the config file.  udev on RHEL/CentOS 5.x is just too broken to automatically set up the devnodes correctly.  (Or at least it was on v5.6.  Maybe v5.7 is working better, but I haven't tried it.)

Note that the hard-coding of /dev/ttyACM0 won't work if you have multiple EntropyKeys installed.

-----Original Message-----
From: "Thomas, Chris" <CThomas at medplus.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 4, 2011 12:25pm
To: entropykey-users at lists.simtec.co.uk
Subject: ekeyd doesn't seem to recognize key

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I recently received my first entropy key to test in some of our systems.
At the moment I can't see to get ekeyd to recognize that the key is
there as ekeydctl won't list it.  System is RHEL 5.6 x86_64 running on
HP ProLiant BL465c G7.  Using the default config file.  It previously
worked fine in another machine, I even tried moving keyring from the
other machine.  Details follow...  Does anyone have any suggestions?

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USB device is recognized:

[root at apg016 entropykey]# lsusb

Bus 007 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

Bus 007 Device 002: ID 03f0:7029 Hewlett-Packard

Bus 005 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

Bus 004 Device 002: ID 20df:0001 Simtec Electronics Entropy Key
[UDEKEY01]

Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

Bus 006 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

ACM driver is loading:

[root at apg016 entropykey]# lsmod | grep acm

cdc_acm                48609  0

Serial device was created:

[root at apg016 entropykey]# ls -l /dev/ttyACM*

crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 166, 0 Oct  3 20:08 /dev/ttyACM0

Daemon running:

[root at apg016 entropykey]# service ekeyd status

ekeyd (pid  2273) is running...

Daemon does not see key:

[root at apg016 entropykey]# ekeydctl list

NR,OK,Status,Path,SerialNo

Software Installed:

[root at apg016 ~]# rpm -qa | egrep "ekey|lua"

ekeyd-1.1.4-1

lua-socket-2.0.2-4

lua-5.1.4-2

Chris Thomas
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