[Swan] Libreswan and USER FQDN IKE IDs

Paul Wouters paul at nohats.ca
Sat Mar 21 01:32:51 UTC 2020


On Fri, 20 Mar 2020, MN Lists wrote:

>> try: ipsec whack --initiate --name <con>
>> You can also, if you put the leftusername= back, add the password to
>> /etc/ipsec.secrets using:
>>
>>     @yourxauthname : XAUTH "password"
>
> Both these actions gave the same result.

>> Seems the other end did not send a password request. Something else
>> might be wrong. You have to ask the other endpoint what error they
>> see.
>
> After diving in to the logs, I found the following:
> Mar 20 11:07:49.073524: | Received Cisco XAUTH type: Generic
> Mar 20 11:07:49.073529: | ****parse ISAKMP ModeCfg attribute:
> Mar 20 11:07:49.073533: |    ModeCfg attr type: XAUTH-USER-NAME (0x4089)
> Mar 20 11:07:49.073538: |    length/value: 0 (0x0)
> Mar 20 11:07:49.073542: | Received Cisco XAUTH username
> Mar 20 11:07:49.073547: | ****parse ISAKMP ModeCfg attribute:
> Mar 20 11:07:49.073551: |    ModeCfg attr type: XAUTH-PASSCODE (0x408b)
> Mar 20 11:07:49.073556: |    length/value: 0 (0x0)
> Mar 20 11:07:49.073561: | Unsupported XAUTH (inI0) long attribute XAUTH-PASSCODE received.
>
> It looks like the gateway is sending a request for an XAUTH-PASSCODE attribute which ipsec does
> not support.

Based on https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-beaulieu-ike-xauth-02#section-6.2
it looks like it is expecting some kind of OTP reply from a hardware or
software token, and not a static password? So in that case you cannot
store the password in the secrets file.

Is your password static? We could patch the code to handle
XAUTH-PASSCODE the same as XAUTH-USER-PASSWORD ? That would
allow you to put it in the secrets file if static, and allow
you to type it in uing ipsec whack --initiate --name <conn>

> I have a lot of logs from the gateway and pluto on this exchange but wasn't sure how you prefer to
> get them on this mailing list, attachments, pastebin or just paste them in the mail?

That is not needed, you picked out the right information above.

Paul


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