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Re: Note on Cyrus-SASL when testing

To: Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@zimbra.com>
Subject: Re: Note on Cyrus-SASL when testing
From: Michael Ströder <michael@stroeder.com>
Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2011 07:59:44 +0100
Cc: openldap-devel@openldap.org
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Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
> Latest cyrus-sasl 2.1.25 introduces a new mechanism called SCRAM.  Unlike the
> other mechanisms, SCRAM generates entropy as soon as the cyrus-sasl library is
> loaded.  This is a problem because cyrus-sasl defaults to using /dev/random
> instead of /dev/urandom when it loads up.  I was having numerous test failures
> until gdb'ing slapd and finding it was stuck initializing SCRAM while starting
> up.
> 
> If you rebuild cyrus-sasl to use /dev/urandom (They thankfully have a
> configure switch for it), things'll work a lot more smoothly.

Seems this might be the cause for (closed) ITS#7069 and ITS#7070.

Ciao, Michael.

References:
- Note on Cyrus-SASL when testing
  - From: Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@zimbra.com>

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