CentOS

As far as I know, there isn't a way to set up fips with EL6. I used CentOS 7 as a result (and have fips encrypted volumes now). What business case do you have for using CentOS 6 instead of the current release?

I'm attempting to mount a nfs share mount -t nfs mybox.example.com:/remoteshare /mnt/somefolder The following error is returned: mount.nfs: rpc.statd is not running but is required for remote locking. mount.nfs: Either use '-o nolock' to keep locks local, or start statd. mount.nfs: an incorrect moun...

The easiest way to encrypt data on a system is to mark volumes to be encrypted during installation. Sys admins can also manually encrypt volumes after the fact . The good news is that as of CentOS/RHEL 6, dm-crypt with the LUKS extension is FIPS kosher. The bad news is that FIPS mode is disabled by ...

Off hand I'd say it is your remote server that is the problem. A second server running CentOS 6.7 with FIPS enabled (and confirmed working) does not have this problem. I don't think it's the remote server. It's not an easily reproduceable problem - I've installed CentOS 6.7 in a VM, enabled FIPS, a...

Can anyone take a crack at this?

Steps to reproduce: Enable openSSH FIPS 140-2 module using these instructions . 1) edit /etc/sysconfig/prelink and set PRELINKING=NO. Issue prelink -u -a at a prompt. 2) yum install dracut-fips 3) dracut -f 4) add "fips=1" and "boot=/dev/sda3" to kernel line of grub.conf. df /boot revealed the corre...