[Snortsam-discussion] Snortsam Password mismatch! error

[Keith Mitchell]

Hi-
    I've been a successful SnortSam user for about 5 years now.

    Just upgraded my IDS to Snort 2.8.1 running on Fedora Core 8 kernel 
2.6.21.7-2.fc8xen in an x64 environment.

    I've tried running Snortsam 2.55 using both a patched Snort 2.8.1 
with the 
http://www.snortsam.net/files/snort-2.8-plugin/snortsam-2.8.0.1.diff
(making sure to correct the errors in the resulting .rej files) and 
Barnyard-0.2.0 patched with 
http://www.snortsam.net/files/barnyard-plugin/barnyard-snortsam-patch.gz.

    Both produce the "Password mismatch! Ignoring host" error when I 
start either the patched Snort or the patched Barnyard.

    I've tried changing the password in the snortsam.conf / snort.conf / 
barnyard.conf files (making sure they match in all places), but am 
unable to get either snort or barnyard to connect to snortsam.

    Is there anything I can try by way of troubleshooting to resolve the 
situation?

Keith Mitchell
CTO
Productivity Associates, Inc.
keithm at gotopai.com