How to get Splunk Python on CentOS to use SSL/Crypto?

[user4455]

It seems Splunk's Python on CentOS 7.2 does not have SSL support.

[root@splunk-test bin]# ./python
Python 2.7.11 (default, Jan  5 2017, 01:46:57) 
[GCC 5.3.0] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import _ssl
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: libssl.so.1.0.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I also get crypto errors from _hashlib

[root@splunk-test bin]# ldd /opt/splunk/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload/_hashlib.so
    linux-vdso.so.1 =>  (0x00007fffaf3f2000)
    libssl.so.1.0.0 => not found
    libcrypto.so.1.0.0 => not found
    libpthread.so.0 => /lib64/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f7e85bb5000)
    libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x00007f7e857f4000)
    /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f7e85de0000)

This does not seem to be an issue on Ubuntu.

Any tips on how to get Splunk's python using ssl/crypto?

Thanks

[starcher · Accepted solution]

I don't think you were running under the Splunk python context.

If you are in a full Splunk install under linux with default location try something like
/opt/splunk/bin/splunk cmd python

Then import ssl.

[mhergh]

This did it for me too, but I still needed to do an: "export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/splunk/lib" to make it finally work!!!!.

However, great answer; I am not able to award points otherwise I would have done it!

[user4455]

That did it, thanks!